Contents
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| Stories | PAGE |
|---|---|
| His Version of It | [3] |
| A Warning to Lovers | [49] |
| “Sauce for the Goose” | [87] |
| The Cortelyou Feud | [103] |
| Plays | |
| “The Best Laid Plans” | [133] |
| “Man Proposes” | [197] |
Tattle-Tales of Cupid
HIS VERSION OF IT
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“She’s a darling!” exclaimed the bay mare, between munches of the big red apple.
“That’s just what she is!” responded the off carriage-horse; and then, as part of his apple fell to the floor, he added fretfully: “I do wish, Lassie, that you girls wouldn’t talk to a fellow when he’s doing something! You’ve made me lose half my apple!”
Old Reveille, with the prudence of twenty-eight years of experience, carefully deposited the unmasticated fraction of his apple beside an uneaten one in his manger before remarking reflectively: “She’s a thoroughbred; but she’s not the beauty her mother was at the same age.”
“Fie!” reproved one of the cobs: “how can you be so ungallant, when she always gives you an extra apple or piece of sugar?”