# The Chronic Loafer

Author: Lloyd, Nelson, 1873-1933

Genre: Category: Humour

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54572

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Chronic+Loafer+Lloyd&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

In the center of one of the most picturesque valleys in the heart of Pennsylvania lies the village and at one end of its single street stands the store. On the broad porch of this homely and ancient edifice there is a long oak bench, rough, and hacked in countless places by the knives of many generations of loungers. From this bench, looking northward across an expanse of meadows, a view is had of a low, green ridge, dotted here and there with white farm buildings. Behind that rise the mountains, along whose sides on bright days play the fanciful shadows of the clouds. Close by the store is the rumbling mill, and beyond it runs the creek, spanned by a wooden bridge whose planking now and...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER X.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-chronic-loafer-54572/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-chronic-loafer-54572/chapters/22/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-chronic-loafer-54572/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-chronic-loafer-54572/chapters/21/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-chronic-loafer-54572/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-chronic-loafer-54572/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-chronic-loafer-54572/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-chronic-loafer-54572/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-chronic-loafer-54572/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-chronic-loafer-54572/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-chronic-loafer-54572/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-chronic-loafer-54572/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-chronic-loafer-54572/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-chronic-loafer-54572/chapters/19/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-chronic-loafer-54572/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-chronic-loafer-54572/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-chronic-loafer-54572/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-chronic-loafer-54572/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-chronic-loafer-54572/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-chronic-loafer-54572/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-chronic-loafer-54572/chapters/20/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-chronic-loafer-54572/chapters/7/index.md)