# Original Penny Readings: A Series of Short Sketches

Author: Fenn, George Manville, 1831-1909

Genre: Category: Short Stories

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34666

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Original+Penny+Readings%3A+A+Series+of+Short+Sketches+Fenn&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Now, it don't matter a bit what sort of clay a pot's made of, if when it's been tried in the fire it turns out sound and rings well when it's struck. If I'm only common red ware, without even a bit of glaze on me, and yet answer the purpose well for which I'm made, why I'm a good pot, ain't I, even if I only hold water? But what I hate is this--to see the pots that we come against every day of our lives all on the grumble and murmur system, and never satisfied. The pot of common clay wishes he was glazed, and the glazed pot wishes he was blue crockery, and the blue crock pot wishes he was gilt, and the gilt pot ain't satisfied because he ain't china; and one and all are regularly blind to...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER SIXTEEN.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/original-penny-readings-a-series-of-short-sketches-34666/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER THREE.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/original-penny-readings-a-series-of-short-sketches-34666/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER ELEVEN.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/original-penny-readings-a-series-of-short-sketches-34666/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER NINE.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/original-penny-readings-a-series-of-short-sketches-34666/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER SEVENTEEN.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/original-penny-readings-a-series-of-short-sketches-34666/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER TWO.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/original-penny-readings-a-series-of-short-sketches-34666/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER THIRTEEN.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/original-penny-readings-a-series-of-short-sketches-34666/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER NINETEEN.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/original-penny-readings-a-series-of-short-sketches-34666/chapters/19/index.md)
- [CHAPTER SIX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/original-penny-readings-a-series-of-short-sketches-34666/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER ONE.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/original-penny-readings-a-series-of-short-sketches-34666/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER TWENTY ONE.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/original-penny-readings-a-series-of-short-sketches-34666/chapters/21/index.md)
- [CHAPTER TWENTY THREE.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/original-penny-readings-a-series-of-short-sketches-34666/chapters/23/index.md)
- [CHAPTER FIVE.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/original-penny-readings-a-series-of-short-sketches-34666/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER TWENTY EIGHT.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/original-penny-readings-a-series-of-short-sketches-34666/chapters/28/index.md)
- [CHAPTER THIRTY.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/original-penny-readings-a-series-of-short-sketches-34666/chapters/30/index.md)
- [CHAPTER FOUR.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/original-penny-readings-a-series-of-short-sketches-34666/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER TEN.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/original-penny-readings-a-series-of-short-sketches-34666/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER TWENTY FOUR.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/original-penny-readings-a-series-of-short-sketches-34666/chapters/24/index.md)
- [CHAPTER FOURTEEN.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/original-penny-readings-a-series-of-short-sketches-34666/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER THIRTY TWO.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/original-penny-readings-a-series-of-short-sketches-34666/chapters/32/index.md)
- [CHAPTER TWELVE.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/original-penny-readings-a-series-of-short-sketches-34666/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER EIGHTEEN.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/original-penny-readings-a-series-of-short-sketches-34666/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER SEVEN.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/original-penny-readings-a-series-of-short-sketches-34666/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER TWENTY SEVEN.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/original-penny-readings-a-series-of-short-sketches-34666/chapters/27/index.md)
- [CHAPTER FIFTEEN.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/original-penny-readings-a-series-of-short-sketches-34666/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER EIGHT.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/original-penny-readings-a-series-of-short-sketches-34666/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER TWENTY FIVE.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/original-penny-readings-a-series-of-short-sketches-34666/chapters/25/index.md)
- [CHAPTER TWENTY NINE.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/original-penny-readings-a-series-of-short-sketches-34666/chapters/29/index.md)
- [CHAPTER TWENTY SIX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/original-penny-readings-a-series-of-short-sketches-34666/chapters/26/index.md)
- [CHAPTER TWENTY TWO.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/original-penny-readings-a-series-of-short-sketches-34666/chapters/22/index.md)
- [CHAPTER TWENTY.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/original-penny-readings-a-series-of-short-sketches-34666/chapters/20/index.md)
- [CHAPTER THIRTY ONE.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/original-penny-readings-a-series-of-short-sketches-34666/chapters/31/index.md)