Skippy Bedelle
Skippy Bedelle
His Sentimental Progress From the Urchin to the Complete Man of the World
His development from enthusiastic inventor of foot-regulators for bathtubs and mosquito-proof socks, to blasé woman-hater of sixteen who confides to his diary, "If any loving is going to be done, they can do the loving." We meet some of the same characters who appeared in The Varmint and The Tennessee Shad.
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ught came to him. After all--why not? All you needed was a foot regulator, to let in the hot and cold water gorgeously, at your ease and inclination! Foot regulators! Why not? There was something in that idea surely.
"Gee, what a cinch that would be!"
If man in his age-old struggle with nature could harness the force of steam to his service and ride the air, why should he not be master of his daily comforts?
"I don't think a foot regulator would be so ding fired hard to invent," he said, meditating.
The idea had begun to work, though as yet the vast scale had not opened to his tender imagination. Now in youth when an idea begins to grow it brings sharp animal appetites. To contemplate properly this new entrancing thought, he repaired to that first station on the hunger route, which was known as Laloo's Kennels, where fragrant hot dogs sent their tantalizing invitation from bubbling tins.
"Two ki-yis and easy on the mustard."
Mr. Laloo prospered because Mr. La
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