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Title: Side-stepping with Shorty

Author: Sewell Ford

Illustrator: Francis Vaux Wilson

Release Date: March 15, 2010 [EBook #31659]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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[Frontispiece: THEY TACKLES ANYTHING I LEADS 'EM UP TO]

Side-stepping

with Shorty

_By_

Sewell Ford

_Illustrated by_

_Francis Vaux Wilson_

NEW YORK

GROSSET & DUNLAP

PUBLISHERS

_Copyright, 1908, by Mitchell Kennerley_

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. SHORTY AND THE PLUTE
II. ROUNDING UP MAGGIE
III. UP AGAINST BENTLEY
IV. THE TORTONIS' STAR ACT
V. PUTTING PINCKNEY ON THE JOB
VI. THE SOARING OF THE SAGAWAS
VII. RINKEY AND THE PHONY LAMP
VIII. PINCKNEY AND THE TWINS
IX. A LINE ON PEACOCK ALLEY
X. SHORTY AND THE STRAY
XI. WHEN ROSSITER CUT LOOSE
XII. TWO ROUNDS WITH SYLVIE
XIII. GIVING BOMBAZOULA THE HOOK
XIV. A HUNCH FOR LANGDON
XV. SHORTY'S GO WITH ART
XVI. WHY WILBUR DUCKED
XVII. WHEN SWIFTY WAS GOING SOME
XVIII. PLAYING WILBUR TO SHOW
XIX. AT HOME WITH THE DILLONS
XX. THE CASE OF RUSTY QUINN

ILLUSTRATIONS

THEY TACKLES ANYTHING I LEADS 'EM TO . . . . . . _Frontispiece_

THE TWINS ORGANIZE A GAME OF TAG

"WE--E--E--OUGH! GLORY BE!" YELLS HANK, LETTIN' OUT AN EARSPLITTER

HE HAS THE PO'TRY TAP TURNED ON FULL BLAST

I

SHORTY AND THE PLUTE

Notice any gold dust on my back? No? Well it's a wonder there ain't,
for I've been up against the money bags so close I expect you can find
eagle prints all over me.

That's what it is to build up a rep. Looks like all the fat wads in
New York was gettin' to know about Shorty McCabe, and how I'm a sure
cure for everything that ails 'em. You see, I no sooner take hold of
one down and outer, sweat the high livin' out of him, and fix him up
like new with a private course of rough house exercises, than he passes
the word along to another; and so it goes.

This last was the limi