A Christmas Accident, and Other Stories (Classic Reprint) PDF Download

Author: Annie Eliot Trumbull
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781440096754
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Languages : en
Pages : 252

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Excerpt from A Christmas Accident, and Other Stories Women's tomfoolery to want to have people, whom you weren't anything to and who were n't anything to you, ringing your doorbell all the time and bother ing around in your dining-room, which of course it was; and she would have believed it if a woman ever did believe anything a man says a great many times. In the other house there were five Chil dren, and, as Mr. Gilton said, they made too large a family, and they ought to have gone somewhere else. Possibly they would have gone had it not been for the fence; but when Mr. Gilton put it up and Mr. Bilton told him it was three inches too far on his land, and Mr. Gilton said he could go to law about it, express ing the idea forcibly, Mr. Bilton was foolish enough to take his advice. The decision went against him, and a good deal of his money went with it, for it was a long, teasing lawsuit, and instead of being three inches of made ground it might have been three degrees of the Arctic Circle for. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.