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Ellis Butler

The Adventures of a SuburbaniteEllis Parker Butler The Adventures of a Suburbanite I. THE PRAWLEYS ISOBEL was born in a flat, and that was no fault of her own; but she was born in a flat, and reared in a flat, and married from a flat, and, for two years after we were married, we lived in a flat; ...

How It Feels to Be FiftyButler Ellis Parker How It Feels to Be Fifty HOW IT FEELS TO BE FIFTY By Ellis Parker ButlerCOPYRIGHT, 1919,BY THE CROWELL PUBLISHING COMPANYTo tell you the honest truth,I am obliged to say that, if I had not been asked to write these few lines on "How it Feels to be Fifty...

The Confessions of a DaddyEllis Parker Butler The Confessions of a Daddy I. OUR NEIGHBORS’ BABIES I guess we folks that live up at our end of town think we are about as good as anybody in Colorado, and mebby a little better. We get along together as pleasant as you please, and we are a sort of co...

The Great American Pie CompanyEllis Parker Butler The Great American Pie Company CHAPTER ONE If you take a pie and cut it in two, the track of your knife will represent the course of Mud River through the town of Gloning, and that part of the pie to the left of your knife will be the East Side, w...

Goat-FeathersEllis Parker Butler Goat-Feathers GOAT-FEATHERS No human being ever tells the whole truth about himself. We seem to be born liars in that particular, all of us, and I am no different. I'm starting out now to tell the bitter, agonizing truth about myself, but before I am through I sha...

In PawnEllis Parker Butler In Pawn CHAPTER I Lem Redding had a dimple in his cheek that appeared when he smiled. For a boy with a faceful of freckles he was pretty. He had dear, bright gray eyes, and his smile, aided by the dimple, made most folks love him at sight. His hair was brown, as his dea...

Philo Gubb, Correspondence-School DetectiveButler Ellis Parker Philo Gubb, Correspondence-School Detective THE HARD-BOILED EGG Walking close along the wall, to avoid the creaking floor boards, Philo Gubb, paper-hanger and student of the Rising Sun Detective Agency’s Correspondence School of Detec...

Solander's Radio TombEllis Parker Butler Solander's Radio Tomb Solander's Radio Tomb By ELLIS PARKER BUTLER"Pigs Is Pigs" Butler quite surpasses himself in this story. The intricacies in radio are so great, and the changes occur so quickly that no one can afford to make a will wherein a radio pro...

The Revolt: A Play In One ActEllis Parker Butler The Revolt: A Play In One Act THE REVOLT SCENE. —The Class-room. A table. Chairs arranged in semi-circle; an easy chair for Grandma Gregg. Screen in one corner. Chairs or couch upon which to lay wraps and hats. Otherwise an ordinary room. Tea thing...

The Incubator BabyEllis Parker Butler The Incubator Baby I On the sunniest slope of the garden of Paradise the trees stand in long, pleasant rows. The air is always balmy, and the trees are forever in bloom with pink and white blossoms. From a distance the trees look like apple trees, but, close ...