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Title: Torchy As A Pa

Author: Sewell Ford

Release Date: February 19, 2007 [EBook #20629]

Language: English

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TORCHY AS A PA

BY
SEWELL FORD

AUTHOR OF
THE TORCHY AND THE SHORTY McCABE STORIES

GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS NEW YORK

Made in the United States of America

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Copyright, 1919, 1920, by
SEWELL FORD

Copyright, 1920, by
EDWARD J. CLODE

All Rights Reserved

Printed In the United States of America

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. Vee Ties Something Loose 1
II. When Hallam Was Rung Up 16
III. The Gummidges Get a Break 34
IV. Finding Out About Buddy 50
V. In Deep for Waddy 69
VI. How Torchy Anchored a Cook 89
VII. How the Garveys Broke in 105
VIII. Nicky and the Setting Hen 122
IX. Brink Does a Sideslip 136
X. 'Ikky-Boy Comes Along 150
XI. Louise Reverses the Clock 162
XII. When the Curb Got Gypped 177
XIII. The Mantle of Sandy the Great 191
XIV. Torchy Shunts a Wizard 205
XV. Stanley Takes the Jazz Cure 220
XVI. The Mystery of the Thirty-One 234
XVII. No Luck with Auntie 248
XVIII. Hartley Pulls a New One 263
XIX. Torchy Gets a Hunch 279
XX. Giving 'Chita a Look 293

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TORCHY AS A PA

CHAPTER I

VEE TIES SOMETHING LOOSE

I forget just what it was Vee was rummagin' for in the drawer of her
writin' desk. Might have been last month's milk bill, or a