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

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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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دار النشر: Project Gutenberg
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XXII Girls as an Epidemic 151 XXIII The Blonde of the Species 160 XXIV Result of a Brother's Advice 169 XXV Antics of a Talking Machine 175 XXVI Containing Some High Melodrama 183 XXVII Hickey in a Deadly Rôle 194 XXVIII Sitting It Out 200 XXIX Dead Game Sports 206 XXX Experiments in a Dress Suit 214 XXXI Shirt Studs as Cupid's Messenger 222 XXXII Living up to an Angel 230 XXXIII Sudden Interest in the Bible 242 XXXIV The Way of the Transgressor 248 XXXV The Scalp Hunter 257 XXXVI Splashing With Your Toes 275 XXXVII Skippy Retires With His Scalp 279 XXXVIII The Philosophical Attitude 289 XXXIX Love Plus Hippo 305 XL Reality Minus Hippo 312

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They walked in silence, oppressed by the greatness of their grief Frontispiece
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Instantly the air was filled with flying sponges 4
"Good gracious!" cried Miss Dabtree with an impetuous lunge towards the point of attack 78
"Really, Jack, I'm beginning to suspect you're an old hand." 140
He balanced carefully, stretched out one arm to encircle an imaginary waist 172
The partner of his arms, escaping, rolled over towards Tootsie 182

SKIPPY BEDELLE


CHAPTER I

Fate in a Bathtub

THERE comes a moment when without warning boy and puppy instantaneously pass into the consciousness of manhood. With the young canine it comes with the first deep-throated defiance of the intruder, the instinct that the wriggling, fawning days are over and that the moment to attack and accept attack has arrived. With the human puppy the change is more elusive. To some it comes with the first clinging splendor of long trousers, to others with the first hopeless love, when at the tragic age of fifteen the world, fate and the disparity of ages intervene. But usually this transformation, all in the twinkling of an eye, from the hungry slouch of boyhood into the stern and brooding adolescence, comes with the discovery of a controlling idea. Without any apparent cause, some illuminating purpose

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