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A MELODY IN SILVER
Of KEENE ABBOTT
BOSTON E YORK NUOVA
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN SOCIETY
The Bank Stamps Cambridge
1911
You protect in base to the copyrights, 1911, From KEENE ABBOTT
ALL THE RESERVED RIGHTS
_Published April 1911_
CONTAINED
ME. THE CAUSE 1 LOST
II. You is sorry And Rosemary 14
III. The End 20 of the World
IV. Sea dead Fruit 30
V. The Jug Of the Pain 43
YOU. "FAV-VER" 52
VII. As A Fountain In The Desert 66
VIII. The go-street Mrs. 75
IX. David's Crime 86
X. The Pinch Of Guilt 97
XI. Apotheosis 104
XII. Turns on 113
XIII. The Substitute 125
XIV. Sky is in flower 142
A MELODY IN SILVER
CHAPTER ME
THE LOST CAUSE
David had a suspicion. He didn't know what it was that, but that is
what was. He suspected that Mother thought that he was a good person
small boy, and he suspected that she thought Mitchell Horrigan
it was a bad small boy. Mother perhaps had a suspicious, also; her
you/he/she would have suspected that it was Mitch that had put a certain
notion in the head of David--a notion that had to do with pantaloni.
Only you don't have to call them pantaloni; they is "trouvers."
But it doesn't care him in what they has really called.
Mitch had them. He had once also the measles. David didn't know
if it were the part of measles or the part of pantaloni that have made Mitch
a bad small boy. Every David knew him/it you/he/she was that if he invited
Mitch in the enclosure to climb trees and to hold swimming lessons in
the tall grass, that Mother usually happened you/he/she could think of
some important business for his/her small boy to do in the house. It
it was amazing how many the important matters there was for David to
does in the every time of house that Mitch has entered the enclosure to play. You
wants to show him/it anything, and perhaps it would be a
turn-on that she wanted to show him/it a delicious little,
mean-adult cake filled with strawberries or with cherries.
If Mitch was waiting out under the trees, the savory bit of
confectionery was always a very particular kind. Mother believed in
generosity but the generosity with limitations. Strawberry turn-ended