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The Bread Line




[Illustration]




The Bread Line

A Story of a Paper


By
Albert Bigelow Paine


[Illustration]


New York
The Century Co.
1900


Copyright, 1899,
By THE J. B. LIPPINCOTT CO.

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Copyright, 1900,
By THE CENTURY CO.




  To Those Who have Started
  Papers, to Those Who have
  Thought of Starting Papers,
  and to Those Who are
  Thinking of Starting Papers.




CONTENTS


  CHAPTER                                                           PAGE

      I THE FIRST DINNER                                               1

     II FRISBY'S SCHEME                                               15

    III A LETTER FROM THE "DEAREST GIRL IN THE WORLD,"
          OTHERWISE MISS DOROTHY CASTLE OF CLEVELAND, TO MR.
          TRUMAN LIVINGSTONE OF NEW YORK                              29

     IV SOME PREMIUMS                                                 36

      V A LETTER FROM MR. TRUMAN LIVINGSTONE OF NEW YORK
          TO MISS DOROTHY CASTLE OF CLEVELAND                         52

     VI CASH FOR NAMES                                                61

    VII A LETTER FROM MISS DOROTHY CASTLE OF CLEVELAND TO
          MR. TRUMAN LIVINGSTONE OF NEW YORK                          84

   VIII THE COURSE OF EVENTS                                          92

     IX IN THE SANCTUM                                               108

      X A LETTER FROM MR. TRUMAN LIVINGSTONE OF NEW YORK
          TO MISS DOROTHY CASTLE OF CLEVELAND                        116

     XI THE GENTLE ART OF ADVERTISING                                125

    XII A LETTER FROM MISS DOROTHY CASTLE OF CLEVELAND TO MR.
          TRUMAN LIVINGSTONE OF NEW YORK                             144

   XIII THE HOUR OF DARK FOREBODING