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Title: The Statesmen Snowbound

Author: Robert Fitzgerald

Illustrator: Wad el Ward

Release Date: November 30, 2006 [EBook #19966]

Language: English

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THE STATESMEN SNOWBOUND

_By_ ROBERT FITZGERALD

_Illustrated by Wad-el-Ward_

New York and Washington
THE NEALE PUBLISHING COMPANY
1909

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. The Funeral

II. Senator Bull and Mr. Ridley--Trials and Tribulations of the
Newly Fledged Member

III. Colonel Manysnifters--An Outing with the "Jewels"

IV. An Accident--Dinner

V. Senator Bull's Story

VI. Representative Holloway Has the Floor

VII. Representative Van Rensselaer Unfolds a Strange Tale

VIII. Senator Wendell Reads "The Creaking of the Stairs"

IX. Senator Hammond's Experience

X. Mr. Callahan's Story

XI. What Happened to Denmead

XII. O'Brien's Narrative

XIII. An Uninvited Guest

ILLUSTRATIONS

Senator Bull and Sammy Ridley

President Madison

Senator Pennypacker

Colonel Ross Addressing the Jury

"Stick to the Thirteenth Commandment!"

The Kiss

Manuel Villasante

Papa Villasante

"Upon each stair the clear impression of a naked human foot!"

"Ah Moy, shrieking, turned and fled!"

"Shoved a revolver right up in the teeth of the prosperous
one!"

"Writes the dramatic criticisms for the moving-picture shows"

"Framed in the doorway stood one of the finest examples of the early
Gothic I have ever seen"

Professor Habib

An Uninvited Guest

The Statesmen Snowbound

I

THE FUNERAL

Toward the close of the --th Congress I was designated a member of a
committee on the part of the House to accompany the remains of the late
Senator Thurlow to their last resting-place at the old home in Kentucky.
And it might be well to state here that I am quite aware that