Cabbages and KingsDoubleday, Page, 1919 - 312 pagine |
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Pagina 24
... Geddie is getting grumpier and crosser every day . If something doesn't happen to relieve his mind I'll have to quit smoking on his back porch - and there's no other place available that is cool enough . " " He isn't grumpy , " said ...
... Geddie is getting grumpier and crosser every day . If something doesn't happen to relieve his mind I'll have to quit smoking on his back porch - and there's no other place available that is cool enough . " " He isn't grumpy , " said ...
Pagina 25
O. Henry. II THE LOTUS AND THE BOTTLE WILLARD GEDDIE , consul for the United States in Coralio , was working leisurely on his yearly report . Goodwin , who had strolled in as he did daily for a smoke on the much coveted porch , had found ...
O. Henry. II THE LOTUS AND THE BOTTLE WILLARD GEDDIE , consul for the United States in Coralio , was working leisurely on his yearly report . Goodwin , who had strolled in as he did daily for a smoke on the much coveted porch , had found ...
Pagina 27
... Geddie laid down his pen and gathered his Pan- ama hat and umbrella . By the sound he knew it to be the Valhalla , one of the line of fruit vessels plying for the Vesuvius Company . Down to niņos of five years , everyone in Coralio ...
... Geddie laid down his pen and gathered his Pan- ama hat and umbrella . By the sound he knew it to be the Valhalla , one of the line of fruit vessels plying for the Vesuvius Company . Down to niņos of five years , everyone in Coralio ...
Pagina 28
... Geddie had been a treasure as a first- baseman . He now closed his umbrella , stuck it up- right in the sand , and stooped , with his hands resting upon his knees . The purser , burlesquing the pitcher's contortions , hurled at the ...
... Geddie had been a treasure as a first- baseman . He now closed his umbrella , stuck it up- right in the sand , and stooped , with his hands resting upon his knees . The purser , burlesquing the pitcher's contortions , hurled at the ...
Pagina 29
... Geddie leaped high and caught the roll with a sounding " thwack . " The loungers on the beach - about a third of the popula- tion of the town - laughed and applauded delight- edly . Every week they expected to see that roll of papers ...
... Geddie leaped high and caught the roll with a sounding " thwack . " The loungers on the beach - about a third of the popula- tion of the town - laughed and applauded delight- edly . Every week they expected to see that roll of papers ...
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admiral aguardiente American Anchuria Atwood bananas beach Beelzebub Billy Keogh Blythe boat bottle captain Caribs Casa Morena chair cigar Clancy coast cocoanut Colonel Falcon consul Coralio crew Dalesburg dark Dicky dollars Don Sabas door drink El Nacional eyes face Felipe flag friends Geddie graft grass Gregg Guatemala hand head Hemstetter honour Johnny Karlsefin lady land laugh looked Losada Madama Maloney Mellinger morning native never night Number Olivarra Orleans paint Pasa pesos phonograph picture President Miraflores president's republic revolution Rosine sail sand says seemed Seņor Goodwin seņorita shoes shore sloop smile smoke Spanish Spanish Main steamer steps stood street tell there's thing thousand tintypes tion took town tree trepanning tropics turned Twas valise Vega verree Vesuvius Wahrfield waiting walked White Winchester rifles yacht Zavalla