Squire Phin
CONTENTS
“Miss Lu-ce-e-e had a par-ret,
An’ she kep’ it in the gar-ret,
An’ she fed it on a car-ret,
An’ she called him J. Iscar-ret,
Holman Day
SQUIRE PHIN
1913
SQUIRE PHIN
CHAPTER I—“HARD-TIMES” WHARFF COCKS HIS NOSE TO SNIFF TROUBLE
CHAPTER II—“HIME” LOOK’S HOMECOMING WITH AN ELEPHANT
AND TROUBLE AND A FEW OTHER THINGS
CHAPTER III—FROM THE MOUTH OF MARRINER AMAZEEN
CHAPTER IV—SQUIRE PHIN FINDS HYMEN’S TORCH BURNING HIS FINGERS
CHAPTER V—HIRAM LOOK MEETS KLEBER WILLARD BRIEFLY AND BRISKLY
AFTER TWENTY-FIVE YEARS
CHAPTER VI—SQUIRE PHIN HAS A WORD OF BUSINESS WITH KING BRADISH
CHAPTER VII—THE BUSINESS OF HUMAN HEARTS
THAT CALLED SQUIRE PHIN TO THE COVE ROAD
CHAPTER VIII—SQUIRE PHIN ACTS AS PEACEMAKER
CHAPTER IX—SUMNER BADGER MAKES A WILL AND, UNWITTINGLY, A DISCLOSURE
CHAPTER X—HIRAM LOOK PULLS IN SIMON PEAK FROM THE FLOTSAM OF LIFE
FOR GOOD AND SUFFICIENT REASONS
CHAPTER XI—THE COMBINATION THAT PROVED TOO MUCH
FOR SQUIRE PHIN’S “LOOK TEMPER”
CHAPTER XII—THE LIVELY FIRST APPEARANCE OF “THE LOOK BROTHERS
CONSOLIDATED MENAGERIE AND CIRCUS”
CHAPTER XIII—THE “COME-UPPANCE” OF CAPTAIN NYMPHUS BODFISH
OF THE PACKET “EFFORT”
CHAPTER XIV—THE PACT OF “ORPHAN HILL”
AND THE DIVAGATIONS OF DISCONSOLATE IMOGENE
CHAPTER XV—SOME OF THE POSSIBILITIES IN A “CORNET BRASS BAND”
AS FIGURED BY ITS PROMOTER, HIRAM LOOK
CHAPTER XVI—THE DISAPPOINTING “TEST CASE” OF SUMNER BADGER,
A “SAMPLE CITIZEN” OF PALERMO
CHAPTER XVII—WHAT DEVELOPED AT THE FORUM IN ASA BRICKETT’S STORE,
TO AN OBBLIGATO BY LOOK’S CORNET BRASS BAND
CHAPTER XVIII—YANKEE DISPOSITION IS NOT EXACTLY UNDERSTOOD,
EVEN BY ITS POSSESSORS.
CHAPTER XIX—SQUIRE PHIN SEES AND REPLEVINS WHAT BELONGS TO HIM
IN MANNER DECIDEDLY SUMMARY
CHAPTER XX—PALERMO’S “MARCH MEETIN’”
HOW IT WAS PLANNED TO BE RUN, AND HOW IT WAS RUN
CHAPTER XXI—WHY HIRAM LOOK WENT OUT OF THE CIRCUS BUSINESS
FOR GOOD AND ALL
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CHAPTER XXII—HOW SYLVENA WILLARD “TRIED IT ON THE DOG,”
WITH HAPPY RESULTS
CHAPTER XXIII—HIRAM LOOK’S TWO LIVELY BUSINESS ENGAGEMENTS
WITH CAPTAIN NYMPHUS BODFISH OF THE “EFFORT”
CHAPTER XXIV—THE CREDIT SHEET, AFTER THE LOOK
AND THE WILLARD FAMILIES STRIKE THEIR BALANCES
CHAPTER XXV—AQUARIUS WHARFF SEES SOMETHING BESIDES HARD TIMES
IN THE SUNSET
THE END
