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Title: Keeping up with Lizzie

Author: Irving Bacheller

Release Date: March 16, 2004 [EBook #11503]

Language: English

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KEEPING UP

WITH

LIZZIE

BY

IRVING BACHELLER

ILLUSTRATED BY
W.H.D.KOERNER

HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
NEW YORK AND LONDON

COPYRIGHT, 1910, 1911, BY HARPER & BROTHERS

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
PUBLISHED MARCH, 1911

C-N

TO

THE LOVING AND BELOVED
"MR. ONEDEAR"
I DEDICATE THIS LITTLE BOOK

CONTENTS

CHAP.

I. IN WHICH THE LEADING TRADESMEN OF POINTVIEW
BECOME A BOARD OF ASSESSORS

II. IN WHICH LIZZIE RETURNS TO HER HOME, HAVING MET A QUEEN
AND ACQUIRED AN ACCENT AND A FIANCE

III. IN WHICH LIZZIE DESCENDS PROM A GREAT HEIGHT

IV. IN WHICH THE HAM WAR HAS ITS BEGINNING

V. IN WHICH LIZZIE EXERTS AN INFLUENCE ON THE AFFAIRS
OF THE RICH AND GREAT

VI. IN WHICH THE PURSUIT OF LIZZIE BECOMES HIGHLY SERIOUS

VII. IN WHICH THE HONORABLE SOCRATES POTTER CATCHES UP
WITH LIZZIE

ILLUSTRATIONS

A DUEL WITH AUTOMOBILES

WITH HIS MIND ON THE SUBJECT OF EXTRAVAGANCE

"SEVEN DOLLARS A BARREL"

"I WANTED YE TO TELL MR. POTTER ABOUT YER TRAVELS," SAYS SAM

LIZZIE DROPPED INTO A CHAIR AND BEGAN TO CRY

BILL AN' I GOT TOGETHER OFTEN AN' TALKED OF THE OLD HAPPY DAYS

WE SET OUT FOR A TRAMP OVER THE BIG FARM

"I'M A CANDIDATE FOR NEW HONORS"

THREE DAYS LATER I DROVE TO THE VILLA

THE BOY EXERTED HIS CHARMS UPON MY LADY WARBURTON.

SHE LED US INTO THE BEDROOM

THEIR EYES WERE WIDE WITH WONDER

KEEPING UP WITH LIZZIE

KEEPING UP WITH LIZZIE

IN WHICH THE LEADING TRADESMEN OF POINTVIEW BECOME A BOARD OF
ASSESSORS

The Honorable Socrates Potter was the only "scientific man" in the
village of Pointview, Connecticut. In every point of manhood he
was far ahead of his neighbors. In a way he had outstripped
himself, for, while his ideas were highly modern, he clung to the
dress and manners that prevailed in h