AIN’T ANGIE AWFUL!
GELETT BURGESS
COME WITH HIM? YOU COULDN’T HAVE MELTED HER OFF WITH AN ACETYLENE BLAST
Being a Story of the Adventures, Blunders, Cap-
tures, Distresses, Engagements, Flirtations,
Gallantries, Hatreds, Ideals, Joys, Kisses,
Loves, Marriages, Near-Marriages, Obses-
sions, Passions, Quests, Romances,
Sweethearts, Trials, Utterances, Vex-
ations, Woes, Xasperations and
Zeal, of one Angela Bish
By GELETT BURGESS
Author of
Goofs, the Burgess Nonsense Book, The Rubaiyat of Omar
Cayenne, The Maxims of Methuselah, The Maxims
of Noah, Are You a Bromide? &c., &c.
Illustrated by Rea Irvin
DORRANCE & CO.
Publishers Philadelphia
Copyright 1918 JUDGE
Copyright 1923 DORRANCE & COMPANY
All rights reserved
Published September
MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Acknowledgment is made to Judge
for permission to use the illustrations
of Rea Irvin
CONTENTS
chapter page I. The Adventure of the Six-Cent Store 15 II. The Adventure of the Peanivorous Rit 28 III. The Adventure of the Fascinating Face 38 IV. The Adventure of the Mad Paper-Hanger 46 V. The Adventure of the Pink Pantaloons 55 VI. The Adventure of the Grafolion Company 65 VII. The Adventure of the Billion-Dollar Bill 75 VIII. The Adventure of the Dumb Deceiver 85 IX. The Adventure of the Mozambique Monkeys 95 X. The Adventure of the Temporary Husband 107
ILLUSTRATIONS
Come with Him? You Couldn’t Have Melted Her Off with an Acetylene Blast Frontispiece She Gave Him a Little Two-For-Five Smile 22 “Why Hast Thou Brought Me Here?” 24 He Flung Wide the Portal 26 The Plumber, Who Cut Off Her Ears with His Tin Shears, Hardly Knew Her 36 That Embrace Was a Revelation of Rapture to Angie, Who Still Had an Amateur Rating 47 A Leprous Bungalow, They Found 49 From a Roll of Green Cartridge Paper She Fashioned the Simple Robe in which She Fledded 53 Like a Fireman Feeding a Furnace His Knife Went Up and Down 69 It Was an Uneasy, Seasick Feeling That There Was Somebody Under the Bed 86 Hardly a Proper Costume in which to Receive Gentlemen at 7 A.M. 88 Finding That She Could Ride the Harp Safely He Set Her Right to Work 98 “Somebody’s Daughter Perhaps,” They Said, “Who Knows” 101
AIN’T ANGIE AWFUL!
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