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Title: Knocking the Neighbors

Author: George Ade

Illustrator: Albert Leverrin

Release Date: November 16, 2006 [EBook #19829]

Language: English

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KNOCKING THE
NEIGHBORS

BY GEORGE ADE
AUTHOR OF
"THE COLLEGE WIDOW," "FABLES IN SLANG," ETC.

_Illustrated by Albert Leverin_

GARDEN CITY NEW YORK
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
1912

_Copyright, 1911, 1912, by_
GEORGE ADE

_Copyright, 1912, by_
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY

_All rights reserved, including that of
translation into foreign languages,
including the Scandinavian_

CONTENTS
The Roystering Blades
The Flat-Dweller
The Advantage of a Good Thing
The Common Carrier
The Heir and the Heiress
The Undecided Bachelors
The Wonderful Meal of Vittles
The Galloping Pilgrim
The Progressive Maniac
Cognizant of our Shortcomings
The Divine Spark
Two Philanthropic Sons
The Juvenile and Mankind
The Honeymoon That Tried to Come Back
The Local Pierpont
The Life of the Party
The Galumptious Girl
Everybody's Friend and the Line-Bucker
The Through Train
The Long and Lonesome Ride
Out of Class B into the King Row
The Boy Who Was Told
The Night Given over to Revelry
He Should Have Overslept
The Dancing Man
The Collision
How Albert Sat In
The Treasure in the Strong Box
The Old-Fashioned Prosecutor
The Unruffled Wife and the Gallus Husband
Books Made to Balance
The Two Unfettered Birds
The Telltale Tintype

ILLUSTRATIONS [omitted]

KNOCKING THE NEIGHBORS

THE ROYSTERING BLADES

Out in the Celery Belt of the Hinterland there is a stunted Flag-Station.

Number Six, carrying one Day Coach and a Combination Baggage and Stock
Car, would pause long enough to unload a Bucket of Oysters and take on
a Crate of Eggs.

In this Settlement the Leading Citizens still wear Gum Arctics with
large Buckles, and Parched Corn is served at Social Functions.

Two highly respected Money-Getters of pure American Stock held forth in
this lonesome Kraal and did a General Merchandizing.

On