eBooks - Literature - Modern Fiction - John Kendrick Bangs - Paste Jewels
Paste Jewels eBooks
by John Kendrick Bangs
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Windows 98SE+, Mac OS X+, Palm Features
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Platforms
Windows 98SE+, Mac OS X+, Palm Features
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Availability:
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Platforms
Windows 98+, Tablet PC, Pocket PC 2003 Features
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Paste Jewels Summary
| "It may interest the readers of this collection of tales, if there should be any such, to know that the incidents upon which the stories are based are unfortunately wholly truthful. They have one and all come under the author's observation during the past ten years, and with the exception of "Mr. Bradley's Jewel," concerning whom it is expressly stated that she was employed through lack of other available material, not one of the servants herein made famous or infamous, as the case may be, was employed except upon presentation of references written by responsible persons that could properly have been given only to domestics of the most sterling character." |
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| Yes, he did, replied Mrs. Perkins. "I'd kept him in a chair for an hour because he would tease Tommy, and when finally I let him go I told him that he was wearing me out with his naughtiness. About an hour later he came back and said, 'You have an awful hard time bringin' me up, don't you?' I said yes, and added that he might spare me the necessity of scolding him so often, to which he replied that he'd try, but thought it would be better if I'd take a vacation for a month. He hadn't much hope for his own improvement." |
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