The Making of Bobby Burnit / Being a Record of the Adventures of a Live American Young Man

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George Randolph Chester

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CHAPTER I BOBBY MAKES SOME IMPORTANT PREPARATIONS FOR A COMMERCIAL LIFE

CHAPTER II PINK CARNATIONS APPEAR IN THE OFFICE OF THE JOHN BURNIT STORE

CHAPTER III OLD JOHN BURNIT'S ANCIENT ENEMY POINTS OUT THE WAY TO GRANDEUR

CHAPTER IV AGNES EMPHATICALLY DECIDES THAT SHE DOES NOT LIKE A CERTAIN PERSON

CHAPTER V WHEREIN BOBBY ATTENDS A STOCK-HOLDERS' MEETING AND CUTS A WISDOM-TOOTH

CHAPTER VI CONSISTING ENTIRELY OF A RAPID SUCCESSION OF MOST PAINFUL SHOCKS

CHAPTER VII PINK-CHEEKED APPLEROD RUSHES TO THE RESCUE WITH A GOLDEN SCHEME

CHAPTER VIII BOBBY SUCCEEDS IN SNAPPING A BARGAIN FROM UNDER SILAS TRIMMER'S NOSE

CHAPTER IX AGNES DELIVERS BOBBY A NOTE FROM OLD JOHN BURNIT IN A GRAY ENVELOPE

CHAPTER X AGNES AND BOBBY DISCERN DIAMOND-STUDDED SPURS FOR THE LATTER

CHAPTER XI BOBBY DISCOVERS AN ENEMY GREATER THAN SILAS TRIMMER

CHAPTER XII AGNES DECIDES THAT SHE WILL WAIT

CHAPTER XIII IN WHICH A CHARMING GENTLEMAN OFFERS AN INVESTMENT WITHOUT A FLAW

CHAPTER XIV BOBBY ENTERS A BUSINESS ALLIANCE, A SOCIAL ENTANGLEMENT AND A QUARREL WITH AGNES

CHAPTER XV A STRANGE CONNECTION DEVELOPS BETWEEN ELECTRICITY AND POLITICS

CHAPTER XVI AGNES APPEARS PUBLICLY WITH MRS. SHARPE AND BIFF BATES HAS A ONE-ROUND SCRAP

CHAPTER XVII BOBBY'S MONEY IS ELECTROCUTED AND JOHN BURNIT'S SON WAKES UP

CHAPTER XVIII SOME EMINENT ARTISTS AMUSE MEESTER BURNIT WHILE HE WAITS

CHAPTER XIX WITH THE RELUCTANT CONSENT OF AGNES, BOBBY BECOMES A PATRON OF MUSIC

CHAPTER XX STILL WITH THE RELUCTANT CONSENT OF AGNES, BOBBY INVESTS IN THE FINE ARTS

CHAPTER XXI WHEREIN THE FINE ARTS PRESENT BOBBY WITH A MOST EMBARRASSING DILEMMA

CHAPTER XXII AGNES FINDS BOBBY A SLING AND BOBBY PUTS A STONE IN IT

CHAPTER XXIII BOBBY BEGINS TO GIVE TESTIMONY THAT HE IS OLD JOHN BURNIT'S SON

CHAPTER XXIV EDITOR BURNIT DISCOVERS THAT HE IS FIGHTING AN ENTIRE CITY INSTEAD OF ONE MAN

CHAPTER XXV AN EXCITING GAME OF TIT FOR TAT WITH HIRED THUGS

CHAPTER XXVI MR. STONE LEAVES BOBBY A PARTING COMMISSION AND A LEFT-HANDED BLESSING

CHAPTER XXVII AUNT CONSTANCE ELLISTON LOSES ALL HER PATIENCE WITH A CERTAIN PROSAIC COURTSHIP

CHAPTER XXVIII BIFF RENEWS A PLEASANT ACQUAINTANCE AND BOBBY INAUGURATES A TRAGEDY

CHAPTER XXIX JIMMY PLATT ENJOYS THE HAPPIEST DAY OF HIS LIFE

CHAPTER XXX IN WHICH, BEING THE LAST CHAPTER, EVERYTHING TURNS OUT RIGHT, AND EVERYBODY GETS MARRIED

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THE MAKING OF BOBBY BURNIT

A man and woman sit on a sofa and read a letter.

I’m in for some of the severest drubbings of my life

THE MAKING OF
BOBBY BURNIT
Being a Record of the Adventures of a Live American Young Man

By GEORGE RANDOLPH CHESTER
Author of
“Get Rich Quick Wallingford,” “The Cash Intrigue,” Etc.

Device

With Four Illustrations
By JAMES MONTGOMERY FLAGG
and F. R. GRUGER

A. L. BURT COMPANY
Publishers New York

Copyright 1908
The Curtis Publishing Company

Copyright 1909
The Bobbs-Merrill Company
June

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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