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Title: Bunker Bean
Author: Harry Leon Wilson
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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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