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Skippy Bedelle
His Sentimental Progress From the Urchin to the Complete Man of the World

Skippy Bedelle His Sentimental Progress From the Urchin to the Complete Man of the World

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mental perturbation perceived that sooner or later he, too, would share the common lot and actually take pleasure in explaining to something pink and white, with large rolling eyes and smiling teeth, that the game of baseball is played with a ball and a bat and that the fielder and not the batter is chasing the ball, that the difference between baseball and football is that a baseball hurts the hands and a football hurts the foot.

Some day when he grew to be Captain of the Eleven like Dink Stover undoubtedly he would condescend to be gazed at and flattered and fondled. If Dink Stover could stand the way Tough McCarthy's sister hung on his arm and flirted openly before the whole school—why of course in permitting such a display of affection Dink Stover was right, for Dink Stover could do no wrong. Some day, then, like his hero, he would condescend to be adored. Some day his turn would come as they sang at the immortal Weber and Fields:

"For I must love some one,
And it may as well be you."

But all this was in the uncharted future. His attitude toward the sex was still the attitude of normal soap-defying boyhood, defensive and belligerent. Yet all this was to change, in the twinkling of an eye, in one short season. The first great disillusionments of youth were at hand and woman with the mask of sympathy and understanding waiting to fashion the man out of the urchin. By what ways, ludicrous and tragically comic, this sentimental progression was achieved is here set down in reverent reminiscence.


CONTENTS

Spine of book
Preface PAGE
Likewise a Declaration of Principles vii
CHAPTER
I Fate in a Bathtub 1
II Birth of an Idea 7
III Macnooder Opens Vistas 10
IV Loneliness of Great Men 16
V The Golden Shower 21
VI Methods of a Financier 26
VII Tragedy 37
VIII When Friends Prove False 40
IX Snorky as a Lady-Killer 51
X Love Lightly Considered 59
XI The Demon of Jealousy 62
XII All's Well That Ends Well 70
XIII A Woman of the World 74
XIV The Plot Against the Mosquito 83
XV The Tennessee Shad Suspects 94
XVI Experiments in Fragrance 99
XVII Soap and Sentiment 110
XVIII Love Comes Like the Measles 118
XIX The Urchin Begins to Bloom 127
XX The Heart of a Brunette 135
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