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Title: The Competitive Nephew

Author: Montague Glass

Release Date: June 24, 2010 [EBook #32960]

Language: English

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THE COMPETITIVE NEPHEW

Books by the Same Author

ABE AND MAWRUSS
ABE AND MAWRUSS PHILOSOPHERS
ELKAN LUBLINER: AMERICAN
OBJECT: MATRIMONY
POTASH AND PERLMUTTER

[Illustration: "He ain't been in the place a year, y'understand, and
to-night he marries a relation of his boss and he gets three hundred
dollars in the bargain"]

The Competitive Nephew

By

MONTAGUE GLASS

_Illustrated_

GARDEN CITY NEW YORK
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
1915

_Copyright, 1915, by_
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY

_All rights reserved, including that of translation into foreign
languages, including the Scandinavian_

COPYRIGHT, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1914, BY THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY

COPYRIGHT, 1911, BY THE FRANK A. MUNSEY COMPANY, N.Y.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. THE COMPETITIVE NEPHEW 3
A Story of Business, Nepotism, Asthma, and Even Love

II. OPPORTUNITY 41
How It Knocked but Once on Mr. Zamp's Door, and Found Him on
the Job

III. THE SORROWS OF SEIDEN 60
Why You Should Never Even Begin with Your Wife's Relations

IV. SERPENTS' TEETH 99
Showing That Sometimes They Bite Both Ways

V. MAKING OVER MILTON 147
The Regeneration of a Lowlife

VI. BIRSKY & ZAPP 186
They Do Good by Stealth and Blush to Find It Pays

VII. THE MOVING PICTURE WRITES 238
And the Bella Hirshkind Home Nearly Makes a H