Andiron Tales: A Short Story Collection, Horror, Fiction and Literature Classic By John Kendrick Bangs! AAA+++

by John Kendrick Bangs, BDP (Editor)

Overview

Excerpt:

"I don't want to interrupt," said Tom, "but it seems to me that man must have been awful rich."

"No, he wasn't," returned Lefty. "He was going to eat the dinner, you know, and then die without paying for it. He wasn't a very good man."

[Illustration: "AND THEN DIE WITHOUT PAYING FOR IT."]

"No," remarked the story-teller. "But he was a very hungry man, in which respect he was just like the Giant I am trying to tell you about. And my, how the Giant roared with glee when he caught sight of Ebenezer.

"'Good!' he cried, 'that's just what I wanted for my lunch. A nice fat boy.'

"Then he reached down," said the Righthandiron, "and grabbed Ebenezer by the arm, and was about to eat him just as he would a piece of asparagus, when Lefty here cried out:

"'Avast there, Skihigh! That isn't a nice fat boy. That is only a miserable Weasel.'

Product Details

BN ID:	2940015862072
Publisher:	BDP
Publication date:	11/15/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
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