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Title: Susan Clegg and a Man in the House

Author: Anne Warner

Illustrator: Alice Barber Stephens

Release Date: October 3, 2007 [EBook #22872]

Language: English

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[Illustration: "'He _is_ a trouble, Mrs. Lathrop.'" FRONTISPIECE(_See
page 21._)]

Susan Clegg
And a Man in the House

BY
ANNE WARNER

Author of "Susan Clegg and her Friend Mrs. Lathrop,"
"A Woman's Will," "The Rejuvenation of
Aunt Mary," "Seeing France
with Uncle John," etc.

_Illustrated from Drawings by_
ALICE BARBER STEPHENS

Boston
Little, Brown, and Company
1907

_Copyright, 1906_,
By Katharine N. Birdsall

_Copyright, 1907_,
By The Butterick Company, Ltd.

_Copyright, 1907_,
By Little, Brown, and Company

_All rights reserved_

Published October, 1907

GRIFFITH-STILLINGS PRESS, BOSTON, MASS., U.S.A.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. Man's Proposal 1

II. Elijah Doxey and His Locked Box 20

III. The First Issue of the Newspaper 32

IV. Settling down after the Honeymoon 43

V. Susan Clegg's Full Day 64

VI. The Editor's Advice Column 85

VII. Mrs. Macy and the Convention 98

VIII. The Biennial 113

IX. The Far Eastern Tropics 128

X. The Evils of Delayed Decease 142

XI. The Democratic Party 156

XII. The Trials of Mrs. Macy 168

XIII. Monotony of Ministerial Monologues 200

XIV. Advisability of Newspaper Exposures 212

XV. The Trial of a Sick Man in the
House