EBOOK, THE UNSPEAKABLE PERK ***
Robert Rowe, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team.
THE UNSPEAKABLE PERK
BY SAMUEL HOPKINS ADAMS
CONTENTS
I. MR. BEETLE MAN
II. AT THE KAST
III. THE BETTER PART OF VALOR
IV. TWO ON A MOUNTAIN-SIDE
V. AN UPHOLDER OF TRADITIONS
VI. FORKED TONGUES
VII. "THAT WHICH THY SERVANT IS--"
VIII. LOS YANKIS
IX. THE BLACK WARNING
X. THE FOLLY OF PERK
XI. PRESTO CHANGE!
XII. THE WOMAN AT THE QUINTA
XIII. LEFT BEHIND
XIV. THE YELLOW FLAG
THE UNSPEAKABLE PERK
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MR. BEETLE MAN
The man sat in a niche of the mountain, busily hating the
Caribbean Sea. It was quite a contract that he had undertaken, for
there was a large expanse of Caribbean Sea in sight to hate; very
blue, and still, and indifferent to human emotions. However, the
young man was a good steadfast hater, and he came there every day
to sit in the shade of the overhanging boulder, where there was a
little trickle of cool air down the slope and a little trickle of
cool water from a crevice beneath the rock, to despise that
placid, unimpressionable ocean and all its works and to wish that
it would dry up forthwith, so that he might walk back to the
blessed United States of America.
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