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Title: Cy Whittaker's Place

Author: Joseph C. Lincoln

Release Date: June 3, 2006 [EBook #3281]

Language: English

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CY WHITTAKER'S PLACE

By Joseph C. Lincoln

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I.-- THE PERFECT BOARDING HOUSE

II.-- THE WANDERER'S RETURN

III.-- "FIXIN' OVER"

IV.-- BAILEY BANGS'S EXPERIMENT

V.-- A FRONT DOOR CALLER

VI.-- ICICLES AND DUST

VII.-- CAPTAIN CY PROVES DELINQUENT

VIII.-- THE "COW LADY"

IX.-- POLITICS AND BIRTHDAYS

X.-- A LETTER AND A VISITOR

XI.-- A BARGAIN OFF

XII.-- "TOWN MEETIN'"

XIII.-- THE REPULSE

XIV.-- A CLEW

XV.-- DEBBY BEASLEY TO THE RESCUE

XVI.-- A REMARKABLE DRIVE AND WHAT FOLLOWED

XVII.-- THE CAPTAIN REMEMBERS HIS AGE

XVIII.-- CONGRESSMAN EVERDEAN

XIX.-- THE TOPPLING OF A MONUMENT

XX.-- DIVIDED HONORS

XXI.-- CAPTAIN CY'S "PICTURE"

CY WHITTAKER'S PLACE

CHAPTER I

THE PERFECT BOARDING HOUSE

It is queer, but Captain Cy himself doesn't remember whether the day was
Tuesday or Wednesday. Asaph Tidditt's records ought to settle it, for
there was a meeting of the board of selectmen that day, and Asaph has
been town clerk in Bayport since the summer before the Baptist meeting
house burned. But on the record the date, in Asaph's handwriting, stands
"Tuesday, May 10, 189-" and, as it happens, May 10 of that year fell on
Wednesday, not Tuesday at all.

Keturah Bangs, who keeps "the perfect boarding house," says it was
Tuesday, because she remembers they had fried cod cheeks and cabbage
that day--as they have every Tuesday--and neither Mr. Tidditt nor Bailey
Bangs, Keturah's husband, was on hand when the dinner bell rang. Keturah
says she is certain it was Tuesday, because she remembers smelling the
boiled cabbage as she stood at the side door, looking up the road to
see if either Asaph or Bailey was coming. As for Bailey, he says he
remembers being late to dinner and his wife's "startin' to heave a
bro