# Penguin Persons & Peppermints

Author: Eaton, Walter Prichard, 1878-1957

Genre: Category: Humour

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26405

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Penguin+Persons+%26+Peppermints+Eaton&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

_Page_ Author's Foreword ix Penguin Persons 1 Spring Comes to Thumping Dick 18 The Passing of the Stage Sundial 33 On Singing Songs with One Finger 41 The Immorality of Shop-windows 46 A Forgotten American Poet 51 New Poetry and the Lingering Line 65 The Lies We Learn in Our Youth 77 The Bad Manners of Polite People 87 On Giving Up Golf Forever 96 "Grape-Vine" Erudition 108 Business Before Grammar 114 Wood Ashes and Progress 118 The Vacant Room in Drama 128 On Giving an Author a Plot 132 The Twilight Veil 136 Spring in the Garden 154 The Bubble, Reputation 168 The Old House on the Bend 180 Concerning Hat-trees 184 The Shrinking of Kingman's Field 189 Mumblety-peg and Middle Age 209 Barber...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/penguin-persons-and-peppermints-26405/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/penguin-persons-and-peppermints-26405/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Chapter 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/penguin-persons-and-peppermints-26405/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/penguin-persons-and-peppermints-26405/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/penguin-persons-and-peppermints-26405/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/penguin-persons-and-peppermints-26405/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/penguin-persons-and-peppermints-26405/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/penguin-persons-and-peppermints-26405/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/penguin-persons-and-peppermints-26405/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/penguin-persons-and-peppermints-26405/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/penguin-persons-and-peppermints-26405/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/penguin-persons-and-peppermints-26405/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/penguin-persons-and-peppermints-26405/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/penguin-persons-and-peppermints-26405/chapters/1/index.md)