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Title: Torchy and Vee

Author: Sewell Ford

Release Date: February 19, 2007 [EBook #20628]

Language: English

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TORCHY AND VEE

BY
SEWELL FORD
AUTHOR OF TORCHY, THE HOUSE OF TORCHY, SHORTY McCABE, Etc.

GROSSET & DUNLAP PUBLISHERS NEW YORK

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Copyright, 1918, 1919, by SEWELL FORD
Copyright, 1919, BY EDWARD J. CLODE
All rights reserved

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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FOREWORD

In the Nature of an Alibi

Some of these stories were written while the Great War was still on. So
the setting and local coloring and atmosphere and all that sort of
thing, such as it is, came from those strenuous days when we heroic
civilians read the war extras with stern, unflinching eye, bought as
many Liberty bonds as we were told we should, and subscribed to various
drives as cheerfully as we might. Have you forgotten your reactions of a
few short months ago? Perhaps then, these may revive your memory of some
of them.

You may note with disappointment that Torchy got no nearer to the
front-line trenches than Bridgeport, Conn. That is a sentiment the
writer shares with you. But the blame lies with an overcautious
government which hesitated, perhaps from super-humane reasons, from
turning loose on a tottering empire a middle-aged semi-literary person
who was known to handle a typewriter with such reckless abandon. And
where he could not go himself he refused to send another. So Torchy
remained on this side, and whether or not his stay was a total loss is
for you to decide.
S. F.

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. The Quick Shunt for Puffy 1
II. Old Hickory Bats Up