Over the Plum Pudding

PAGE "OVER THE PLUM-PUDDING" 3 BILLS, M.D. 23 THE FLUNKING OF WATKINS'S GHOST 41 AN UNMAILED LETTER 67 THE AMALGAMATED BROTHERHOOD OF SPOOKS 83 A GLANCE AHEAD 105 HANS PUMPERNIC...

To be sure, we had all agreed that this year we should avoid extravagance, and the little madame had informed me that she would be very unhappy if I expended more than $40,000 u...

"That's all right," returned the ghost, kindly. "I don't blame you, on the whole. The trouble lies just where you say. In college people study geology and physiology and all the...

"Then, my dear man, there are your children. What a joy they are! What a source of affectionate pride; what a source of satisfaction, and how they trust you, Jack. You remember...

My nervous dread redoubled as I neared Chicago, and it was as much as I could do, when the train reached Kalamazoo, to keep from turning back. And the event showed that I suffer...

"They had to stay in Patagonia until they could," said James. "It is known as the School of Instruction of the States. It is also our penal colony. Instead of prisons, we have a...

"My great-great-great-great-great-granduncle, the perpetual baby," said Hans, wiping his eyes. "He's the worst baby you ever saw. He yells and howls and howls and yells all the...

The consequence of all this harmony between the three dear old gentlemen was that they were always together. They practised together, and on public occasions they played togethe...

"'This is worth investigating. I will investigate,' he cried. 'Meditation is good in its way, but if a thing is past mental comprehension, then investigation of an active sort i...

And now, as every story should begin at the beginning, let me go back to the time when I first took charge of the _Gretchen B._ It was five years agone, on the 7th day of May, 1...