The Bull of the Boulevards

Because

“There weren’t enough medals to go ’round!”

CONTENTS

1[The Maiden’s Prayer]
2[Correspondence from Heaven]
3[Apple-sauce for the Gander]
4[A Mask of Khaki]
5[A Maiden Sleeps with an Army]
6[A Joy Hole]
7[A Dog’s Life]
8[No Place for a Lady]
9[A Lousy Lady]
10[The Battle of Le Chien Rouge]
11[Fair Enough in Love and War]
12[Mademoiselle from Gay Paree]
13[Below the Belt]
14[It Takes a Woman to Catch a Woman]
15[The Twain Meet]
16[Beaucoup Zigzag]
17[The Death Ships]
18[The Best Man Wins]
19[The Cost of Curiosity]
20[The Tail of the Tale]

A MAID AND A MILLION MEN

CHAPTER 1
The Maiden’s Prayer

There was a party up in Heaven the night that I was born and my mother’s Guardian Angel was playing one of those now-you-see-it-and-now-you-don’t shell games with the Court Jester while the Head-Man so far forgot himself, under the influence of the chorus of angelic yessers, as to do sleight-of-hand tricks with the Vital Statistics and the Orders of the Day. The whole court laughed to see such sport and even my mother’s Guardian Angel must have thought it was a good joke on my father.