Davis, Richard Harding, 1864-1916 / 2008-06-30 00:00:00

EBOOK GALLEGHER AND OTHER STORIES ***


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GALLEGHER
AND OTHER STORIES
BY
RICHARD HARDING DAVIS
_With Illustrations by Charles Dana Gibson_
COPYRIGHT, 1891, BY
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS


TO
MY MOTHER


CONTENTS

GALLEGHER: A NEWSPAPER STORY
A WALK UP THE AVENUE
MY DISREPUTABLE FRIEND, MR. RAEGEN
THE OTHER WOMAN
THE TRAILER FOR ROOM NO. 8
"THERE WERE NINETY AND NINE"
THE CYNICAL MISS CATHERWAIGHT
VAN BIBBER AND THE SWAN-BOATS
VAN BIBBER'S BURGLAR
VAN BIBBER AS BEST MAN


GALLEGHER
A Newspaper Story
[Illustration: "Why, it's Gallegher!" said the night editor.]

We had had so many office-boys before Gallegher came among us that
they had begun to lose the characteristics of individuals, and became
merged in a composite photograph of small boys, to whom we applied the
generic title of "Here, you"; or "You, boy."
We had had sleepy boys, and lazy boys, and bright, "smart" boys, who
became so familiar on so short an acquaintance that we were forced to
part with them to save our own self-respect.
They generally graduated into district-messenger boys, and
occasionally returned to us in blue coats with nickel-plated buttons,
and patronized us.
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