# Squire Phin

Author: Day, Holman, 1865-1935

Genre: Category: Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55340

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Squire+Phin+Day&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The village sounds in Palermo that sleepy afternoon were only the “summer snorin’s,” as Marriner Amazeen used to say. There was the murmur of flies buzzing lazily around some banana, skins which curled limply in the August sun in front of Asa Brickett’s store. At the side of the building, in a patch of shade, a half-dozen old men, jack-knifed on a rickety settee, droned in intermittent conversation. From open kitchen windows along the village street came subdued sounds of the after-dinner work of the housewives--clash of cutlery and clatter of dishes. In a dusty maple whose lower branches had taken toll from passing loads of hay, a cicada shrilled his long-drawn note, like an almost inter...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER XXI--WHY HIRAM LOOK WENT OUT OF THE CIRCUS BUSINESS](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/squire-phin-55340/chapters/21/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XX--PALERMO’S “MARCH MEETIN](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/squire-phin-55340/chapters/20/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II--“HIME” LOOK’S HOMECOMING WITH AN ELEPHANT](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/squire-phin-55340/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV--THE PACT OF “ORPHAN HILL](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/squire-phin-55340/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I--“HARD-TIMES” WHARFF COCKS HIS NOSE TO SNIFF TROUBLE](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/squire-phin-55340/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI--SQUIRE PHIN HAS A WORD OF BUSINESS WITH KING BRADISH](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/squire-phin-55340/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV--SQUIRE PHIN FINDS HYMEN’S TORCH BURNING HIS FINGERS](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/squire-phin-55340/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X--HIRAM LOOK PULLS IN SIMON PEAK FROM THE FLOTSAM OF LIFE](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/squire-phin-55340/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVIII--YANKEE DISPOSITION IS NOT EXACTLY UNDERSTOOD,](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/squire-phin-55340/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXII--HOW SYLVENA WILLARD “TRIED IT ON THE DOG,](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/squire-phin-55340/chapters/22/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII--SQUIRE PHIN ACTS AS PEACEMAKER](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/squire-phin-55340/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX--SUMNER BADGER MAKES A WILL AND, UNWITTINGLY, A DISCLOSURE](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/squire-phin-55340/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III--FROM THE MOUTH OF MARRINER AMAZEEN](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/squire-phin-55340/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI--THE DISAPPOINTING “TEST CASE” OF SUMNER BADGER,](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/squire-phin-55340/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVII--WHAT DEVELOPED AT THE FORUM IN ASA BRICKETT’S STORE,](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/squire-phin-55340/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII--THE BUSINESS OF HUMAN HEARTS](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/squire-phin-55340/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V--HIRAM LOOK MEETS KLEBER WILLARD BRIEFLY AND BRISKLY](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/squire-phin-55340/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII--THE LIVELY FIRST APPEARANCE OF “THE LOOK BROTHERS](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/squire-phin-55340/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIX--SQUIRE PHIN SEES AND REPLEVINS WHAT BELONGS TO HIM](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/squire-phin-55340/chapters/19/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXIII--HIRAM LOOK’S TWO LIVELY BUSINESS ENGAGEMENTS](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/squire-phin-55340/chapters/23/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXIV--THE CREDIT SHEET, AFTER THE LOOK](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/squire-phin-55340/chapters/24/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII--THE “COME-UPPANCE” OF CAPTAIN NYMPHUS BODFISH](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/squire-phin-55340/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI--THE COMBINATION THAT PROVED TOO MUCH](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/squire-phin-55340/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV--SOME OF THE POSSIBILITIES IN A “CORNET BRASS BAND](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/squire-phin-55340/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXV--AQUARIUS WHARFF SEES SOMETHING BESIDES HARD TIMES](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/squire-phin-55340/chapters/25/index.md)