Category: Humour
The Postmaster
"Well, I’m sorry, for the firm’s sake," he says. "It won’t seem natural for the _Fair Breeze_ to make port without you in command. Cap’n, you’re goin’ to miss the old schooner."
Chapters
5. CHAPTER V—A TRAP AND WHAT THE "RAT" CAUGHT IN IT
Foster run a shebang that was labeled "The Palace Billiard, Pool and Sipio Parlors. Cigars and Tobacco. Tonics, all Flavors. Ice Cream in Season." The "Palace" part was some exa...
12. CHAPTER XII—JIM HENRY STARTS SCREENINA whole month more went by afore Jim Henry Jacobs was well enough to come home. When he got off the train at the Ostable depot, thin and white and lookin’ as if he’d been hauled...
13. CHAPTER XIII—WHAT CAME THROUGH THE SCREEN"Say," says he, "there was a sample of the Eureka screen in Parkinson’s office when I was there just now. He wouldn’t say who left it or anything about it. When I asked he grinn...
3. CHAPTER III—I GET INTO POLITICSWhen I shook hands with Mary Blaisdell and left her standin’ under the wistaria vine at the front door of the little old house that had belonged to Henry, all I said was for her...
9. CHAPTER IX—ROSES—BY ANOTHER NAMEBut locatin’ him wa’n’t such an easy matter. All we knew was he lived somewheres in Wampaquoit, and Wampaquoit is ten miles from nowhere, in the woods up around Cohasset Narrows...
2. CHAPTER II—WHAT A "PULLET" DID TO A PEDIGREEIn less than two months that store of ours was a payin’ proposition. Jim Henry Jacobs was responsible, that is all I can tell you. Don’t ask me how he did it. ’Twas advertisin’,...
4. CHAPTER IV—HOW I MADE A CLAM CHOWDER; AND WHAT A CLAM CHOWDER MADE OF MEWell, sir, even the Major’s guns was spiked for a minute. I cal’late that, for once, he’d forgot all about his dietizin’ and only remembered his appetite. He gurgled and choked...
8. CHAPTER VIII—ARMENIANS AND INJUNS; LIKEWISE BY-PRODUCTSYou can imagine that Jim Henry and Mary had a good deal of fun over my experience with Lot and his tribe. They joked me about it consider’ble. But I didn’t mind. My foot was all...
14. CHAPTER XIV—THE EPISTLE TO ICHABODMary came in a few minutes later and she had to be told the news. She was as pleased as I was and there was more congratulatin’. Then Georgianna had to go home and, as she was a...
6. CHAPTER VI—I RUN AFOUL OF COUSIN LEMUELWell, to be honest, I felt pretty bad about that billiard room business. I was real sorry for old Ebenezer. Of course Taylor was a skinflint and a thorough-goin’ mean man, but R...
10. CHAPTER X—THE SIGN OF THE WINDMILLEben George Edgar Edwin Delmonico Frank went out, dabbin’ at his forehead with the red and yellow handkerchief. Jacobs kept his clove hitch on my arm and led me out to the sette...
11. CHAPTER XI—COOKS AND CROOKSI was at the store by quarter of eleven, but the gang of creditors was there to meet me, seven of ’em altogether. Cahoon, the chicken man, and Bangs, the milk man, and Hall, the...
7. CHAPTER VII—THE FORCE AND THE OBJECTWell, it took all of fifteen minutes for me to drive the idea out of that critter’s head that his relative had gone loony. I was hoppin’ around on my sound foot tryin’ to dress,...
1. CHAPTER I—I MAKE TWO BETS—AND LOSE ONE OF ’EM"Well, I’m sorry, for the firm’s sake," he says. "It won’t seem natural for the _Fair Breeze_ to make port without you in command. Cap’n, you’re goin’ to miss the old schooner."
15. CHAPTER XV—HOW IKE’S LOSS TURNED OUT TO BE MY GAINThere’s no use dwelling on unpleasantness. And there’s no use tellin’ what Ike Hamilton said. I’d be liable to the law, if I did tell it, and, besides, I’ve been away from seafa...
16. CHAPTER XVI—I PAY MY OTHER BET'Twas June, and Mary and I were in New York together, on _our_ honeymoon. We’d been married, quietly, by the same parson that tied the knot for Jim and Georgianna, and Georgiann...