"SHAVINGS"
A NOVEL
JOSEPH C. LINCOLN
"EXTRICATING OBIDIAH," "MARY-'GUSTA," ETC. ETC.
H. M. BRETT
CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
JED WAS WATCHING RUTH ... LOOKING OFF OVER THE WATER
"JED," SHE ASKED, "WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE AN AVIATOR?"
THERE WAS A MOMENTARY GLIMPSE OF A BRINDLE CATWITH A MACKEREL CROSSWISE IN ITS MOUTH
"AND IS HE GOING TO TELL?" SHE WHISPERED
CHAPTER I
Mr. Gabriel Bearse was happy. The prominence given to this statement is not meant to imply that Gabriel was, as a general rule, unhappy. Quite the contrary; Mr. Bearse's disposition was a cheerful one and the cares of this world had not rounded his plump shoulders. But Captain Sam Hunniwell had once said, and Orham public opinion agreed with him, that Gabe Bearse was never happy unless he was talking