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It was a blistering night in August. All day long the mercury in the thermometer had been flirting with the figures at the top of the tube, and the promised shower at night which a mendacious Weather Bureau had been prophesying as a slight mitigation of our sufferings was conspicuous wholly by its absence. I had but one comfort in the sweltering hours of the day, afternoon and evening, and that was that my family were away in the mountains, and there was no law against my sitting around all day clad only in my pajamas, and otherwise concealed from possibly intruding eyes by the wreaths of smoke that I extracted from the nineteen or twenty cigars which, when there is no protesting eye to suggest otherwise, form my daily allowance. I had tried every method known to the resourceful flat-dweller of modern times to get cool and to stay so, but alas, it was impossible.

John Kendrick Bangs was an American author and satirist whose most famous works were mysteries. In particular, his series about the gentleman thief Raffles remain popular today.

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The Idiot At Home is a satirical novel written by American author John Kendrick Bangs and first published in 1900. The story follows the misadventures of a bumbling and clueless man named Smithers who is hired to be the butler for a wealthy family. Despite his lack of experience and common sense, Smithers manages to stumble his way through his duties and inadvertently causes chaos and confusion in the household. Along the way, he also becomes involved in a romantic subplot with the family's daughter. The novel is a humorous critique of the upper-class society of the time and the absurdities of the butler profession. Bangs' witty writing style and clever wordplay make for an entertaining and lighthearted read.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

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""The Booming of Acre Hill and Other Reminiscences of Urban and Suburban Life"" is a collection of essays written by John Kendrick Bangs. The book is a nostalgic look back at life in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in urban and suburban areas. The essays cover a wide range of topics, from the growth of cities and the rise of the middle class to the joys and challenges of everyday life. Bangs writes with wit and humor, and his observations are both insightful and entertaining. The book provides a fascinating glimpse into a bygone era and will appeal to anyone interested in history, social commentary, or simply a good read.1900. A collection of stories from Mr. Bangs. Contents: The Booming of Acre Hill; The Strange Misadventures of an Organ; The Plot that Failed; The Base Ingratitude of Barkis, M.D.; The Utilitarian Mr. Carraway; The Book Sales of Mr. Peters; The Valor of Brinley; Wilkins; The Mayor's Lamps; The Balance of Power; Jarley's Experiment; Jarley's Thanksgiving; Harry and Maude and I-also James; An Affinitive Romance; and Mrs. Upton's Device. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

John Kendrick Bangs was an American author and satirist whose most famous works were mysteries. In particular, his series about the gentleman thief Raffles remain popular today.

John Kendrick Bangs was an American author and satirist whose most famous works were mysteries. In particular, his series about the gentleman thief Raffles remain popular today.

By the American author and satirist, and the creator of modern Bangsian fantasy, the school of fantasy writing that sets the plot wholly or partially in the afterlife. Features the great detective Sherlock Holmes, who is drafted in to track down the House-Boat.

The Autobiography of Methuselah is a classic bible humor text by John Kendrick Bangs. Having recently passed into what my great-grandson Shem calls my Anecdotage, it has occurred to me that perhaps some of the recollections of a more or less extended existence upon this globular mass of dust and water that we are pleased to call the earth, may prove of interest to posterity, and I have accordingly, at the earnest solicitation of my grandson, Noah, and his sons, Shem, Ham and Japhet, consented to put them into permanent literary form.

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Excerpt from The Booming of Acre Hill: And Other Reminiscences of Urban and Suburban Life Acre Hill ten years ago was as void of houses as the primeval forest. Indeed, in many ways it suggested the primeval forest. Then the Acre Hill Land Improvement Company sprang up in a night, and before the bewildered owners of its lovely solitudes and restful glades, who had been paying taxes on their property for many years, quite grasped the situation they found that they had sold out, and that their old-time paradise was as surely lost to them as was Eden to Adam and Eve. To-day Acre Hill is gridironed with macadamized streets that are lined with houses of an architecture of various degrees of badness. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Sherlock Holmes -- a fictional character -- was never alive, at least in the usual sense . Yet here he is to be found, engaging in sharp-witted conversation with the shades of various and sundry famous souls of our historic past -- and trying to prove that a certain cigar fragment does, indeed, belong to Captain Kidd -- that shady shade of Hades who has absconded with the Houseboat of the Associated Shades.

Complete digitally restored reprint (facsimile) of the original edition of 1905 with excellent resolution and outstanding readability. With 6 illustrations.

"I am glad to see that the government is beginning to think seriously of providing Ambassadors' residences at the various foreign capitals to which our Ambassadors are accredited," said the Idiot, stirring his coffee with a small pocket thermometer, and entering the recorded temperature of 58 degrees Fahrenheit in his little memorandum book. "That's a thing we have needed for a long time. It has always seemed a humiliating thing to me to note the differences between the houses of our government officials of equal rank, but of unequal fortune, abroad. To leave the home of an Ambassador to Great Britain, a massive sixteen-story mausoleum, looking like a collision between a Carnegie Library and a State Penitentiary, with seven baths and four grand pianos on every floor, with guides always on duty to show you the way from your bedchamber to the breakfast room, and a special valet for each garment you wear, from sock to collar, and go over to Rome and find your Ambassador heating his coffee over a gas-jet in a hall bedroom on the top floor of some dusty old Palazzo, overlooking the garage of the Spanish Minister, is disconcerting, to say the least. It may be a symptom of American fraternity, but it does not speak volumes for Western Hemispherical equality, and the whole business ought to be standardized. An American Embassy architecturally should not be either a twin brother to a Renaissance lunatic asylum, or a replica of a four thousand dollar Ladies' Home Journal bungalow that can be built by the owner himself working Sunday afternoons for eight hundred dollars, exclusive of the plumbing."

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The Water Ghost and Others By John Kendrick Bangs

"I cannot imagine a more disagreeable way of qualifying for the income tax," said one of America's most noted after-dinner speakers to me when at a chance meeting he and I were discussing the joys and woes of the lecture platform. I must admit that in a way I sympathized with him; for I knew something of the sufferings endured for days and nights prior to one's own public appearance as an after-dinner or platform speaker. There was a time many years ago, upon which I look back with wonder that I ever came through it without nervous prostration, when I suffered those selfsame mental agonies as the hour approached for the fulfilment of one of those rash promises which men fond of the sound of their own voices make months in advance to those subtle flatterers who would lure them from the easy solitudes of silence into the uneasy limelight of after-dinner oratory. Not without reason has a certain wit, whose name is unfortunately lost to fame, referred to the chairs behind the guest table on the raised platform at revelries of this nature as "The Seats of the Mighty and Miserable." These sufferings involve a loss of appetite for days in advance of the event; a complete derangement of the nervous system, with no chance of recovery for at least ten days preceding the emergent hour, since sleep either refuses to come to one's relief altogether, or coming brings in its train a species of nerve-racking dream which leaves the last estate of the weary slumberer worse than the first. The complication is far more difficult to handle than that involved in the maturity of a promissory note which one is unable to meet; for there are conditions under which a tender-hearted creditor will permit a renewal of the latter sort of obligation, and this thought provides some sort of rift in the cloud of a debtor's despair.

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THIS 26 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: The Booming of Acre Hill and Other Reminiscences of Urban and Suburban Life, by John Kendrick Bangs. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 1417915137.

"Half-Hours with Jimmieboy" from John Kendrick Bangs. American author, editor and satirist (1862-1922).

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"In Camp With A Tin Soldier" from John Kendrick Bangs. American author, editor and satirist (1862-1922).

Acre Hill ten years ago was as void of houses as the primeval forest. Indeed, in many ways it suggested the primeval forest. Then the Acre Hill Land Improvement Company sprang up in a night, and before the bewildered owners of its lovely solitudes and restful glades, who had been paying taxes on their property for many years, quite grasped the situation they found that they had sold out, and that their old-time paradise was as surely lost to them as was Eden to Adam and Eve.

Complete digitally restored reprint (facsimile) of the original edition of 1892 with excellent resolution and outstanding readability. Illustrated by E. M. Ashe with 6 pictures.