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Title: IT and Other Stories

Author: Gouverneur Morris

Release Date: January 30, 2009 [EBook #27934]

Language: English

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IT

AND OTHER STORIES

BY

GOUVERNEUR MORRIS

AUTHOR OF "THE FOOTPRINT, AND OTHER STORIES,"
"THE SPREAD EAGLE AND OTHER STORIES," ETC.

NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
1912

COPYRIGHT, 1912, BY
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

Published March, 1912

TO ELSIE

I

Crown the heads of better men
With lilies and with morning-glories!
I'm unworthy of a pen--
These are Bread-and-Butter stories.
Shall I tell you how I know?
Strangers wrote and told me so.

II

He who only toils for fame
I pronounce a silly Billy.
_I_ can't dine upon a name,
Or look dressy in a lily.
And--oh shameful truth to utter!--
I _won't_ live on bread and butter.

III

Sometimes now (and sometimes then)
Meat and wine my soul requires.
Satan tempted me--my pen
Fills the house with open fires.
I _must_ have a horse or two--
Babies, oh my Love--and you!

G. M.

AIKEN, _February 10, 1912_.

CONTENTS

PAGE
_It_ 1

_Two Business Women_ 31

_The Trap_ 73

_Sapphira_ 119

_The Bride's Dead_ 169

_Holding Hands_ 199

_The Claws of The Tiger_ 235

_Growing Up_ 273

_The Battle of Aiken_ 297

_An Idyl of Pelham Bay Park_ 313

_Back There in the Grass_ 337

_Asabri_ 363

IT

Prana Beach would be a pa