The Guardsman
Unknown · 1919
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Description
Homer Greene opens a boys' tale on a murky holiday night in The Guardsman, from George W Jacobs of Philadelphia in 1919. Halloween in the year 1909 finds the boys of Fairweather out in groups, loud in the lit streets and quiet in the dark ones. Greene jokes that mischief, moving Mr Smith's loose property to Mr Jones's yard, rules the night.
A front plate shows a knife dropping from a man's hand, and later plates show Hal answering a Mr Barriscale and a boy named Chick helped into a car. Half a dozen boys slip past a loitering policeman toward the business quarter.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Unknown |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 1919 |
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 393 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |