The Club of Queer Trades
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A PAIR OF GREAT, SLIMY HANDS … FORCED HIM DOWN IN THE SUFFOCATING DARKNESS
The Club of
Queer Trades
By
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Illustrated
New York and London
Harper & Brothers Publishers
1905
Copyright, 1903, 1904, 1905, by Harper & Brothers.
All rights reserved.
Published April, 1905.
CONTENTS
CHAP. PAGE
I. | 1 |
II. | 53 |
III. | 89 |
IV. | 129 |
V. | 177 |
VI. | 217 |
ILLUSTRATIONS
"A PAIR OF GREAT, SLIMY HANDS FORCED HIM DOWN IN THE SUFFOCATING DARKNESS" |
Frontispiece |
"BASIL BENT SUDDENLY DOWN AND TORE A PAPER OUT OF SIR WALTER'S BREAST-POCKET" |
Facing p. 86 |
"'SIT DOWN, BASIL,' I IMPLORED, 'YOU'RE EXCITED'" |
122 |
"THE MIGHTY TRUNKS WERE BEGINNING TO SWAY AND SHAKE SLIGHTLY IN THE WIND" |
170 |
"'THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD PAY PROFESSOR CHADD £800 A YEAR UNTIL HE STOPS DANCING'" |
208 |
"RUPERT GRANT HAD BOUNDED ON HIM FROM BEHIND" |
242 |
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