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The Project Gutenberg eBook, Bunker Bean, by Harry Leon Wilson, Illustrated by F. R. Gruger This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Bunker Bean Author: Harry Leon Wilson Release Date: May 2, 2005 [eBook #15743] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BUNKER BEAN*** E-text prepared by Suzanne Shell, Project Gutenberg Beginners Projects, Eva Sweeney, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 15743-h.htm or 15743-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/5/7/4/15743/15743-h/15743-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/5/7/4/15743/15743-h.zip) BUNKER BEAN by HARRY LEON WILSON Author of _The Spenders_, _The Lions of the Lord_, _The Boss of Little Arcady_, etc. Illustrated By F. R. Gruger Garden City ... New York Doubleday, Page & Company 1913 [Illustration: "Every time I get alone I just giggle myself into spasms. Isn't it the funniest?"] To H.G. WELLS ILLUSTRATIONS "Every time I get alone I just giggle myself into spasms. Isn't it the funniest?" It was a friendly young face he saw there, but troubled "I feared he was discommoding you," ventured the Countess, elegantly apologetic "Daughter!" said Breede with half a glance at the flapper In that instant Bean read the flapper's look, the look she had puzzled him with from their first meeting "Oh, put up your trinkets!" said Bean, with a fine affectation of weariness Thereafter, until late at night, the red car was trailed by the taxi-cab "Lumbago!" said Bean, both hands upon the life-belt BUNKER BEAN I Bunker Bean was wishing he could be different. This discontent with himself was suffered in a moment of idleness as he sat at a desk on a high floor of a very high office-building in "downtown" New York. The first correction he would have made was that he should be "well over six feet" tall. He had observed that this was the accepted stature for a hero. And the name, almost any name but "Bunker Bean!
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