Alex the Great
by H. C. Witwer
★3.5/5
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Chapters (30)
- ALEX THE GREAT
- H. C. WITWER
- Author of "From Baseball to Boches," "A Smile a Minute," etc.
- ILLUSTRATED BY ARTHUR WILLIAM BROWN
- BOSTON SMALL, MAYNARD & COMPANY PUBLISHERS
- DEDICATED TO RALPH T. HALE —EDITOR OF SMALL, MAYNARD AND COMPANY— MY PUBLISHER—BUT STILL MY FRIEND
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- Along he comes with some dame he must have kidnapped from the Follies when Ziegfeld was busy countin' up the receipts or somethin'. . . . . . . Frontispiece I struck a match and he tells me they is 9,765,543 of them used in New York every fiscal year. "She's going to marry me, she's going to marry me!" She's knittin' a sweater for me that will prob'ly make me off her for life. "How perfectly sweet! If you two only knew what a pretty picture you make!" "Heavens!" says the vampire. "You must have worked all your life to acquire ignorance, for no one was ever born as stupid as you!" When the dames cast languishing glances at his handsome form, he glared at them like an infuriated turtle.
- ALEX THE GREAT
- CHAPTER I
- INTRODUCING ALEX THE GREAT
- CHAPTER II
- THE SELF-COMMENCER
- CHAPTER III
- PLAY YOUR ACE!
- CHAPTER IV
- DON'T GIVE UP THE TIP!
- CHAPTER V
- YOU CAN DO IT!
- CHAPTER VI
- THE LITTLE THINGS DON'T COUNT
- I struck a match and he tells me they is 9,765,543 of them used in New York every fiscal year.
- "She's going to marry me, she's going to marry me!"
- CHAPTER VII
- ART IS WRONG
- She's knittin' a sweater for me that will prob'ly make me off her for life.
- "How perfectly sweet! If you two only knew what pretty picture you make!"
- "Heavens!" says the vampire. "You must have worked a your life to acquire ignorance, for no one was ever born as stupid as you!"
- When the dames cast languishing glances at his handsome form, he glared at them like an infuriated turtle.
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