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                         THRILLS OF A BELL BOY




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                              THRILLS OF A
                                BELL BOY

                                   By

                         Samuel Ellsworth Kiser

               Author of “Love Sonnets of an Office Boy,”
                    “Ballads of the Busy Days,” etc.

                             Illustrated by

                           John T. McCutcheon


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                                Chicago
                            Forbes & Company
                                  1906




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                            Copyright, 1904
                      BY THE SATURDAY EVENING POST

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                            Copyright, 1906
                          BY FORBES & COMPANY




                Colonial Press: Electrotyped and Printed
                by C. H. Simonds & Co., Boston, U. S. A.




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                              THRILLS OF A
                                BELL BOY




                                   I.


         GEE! There’s a call from seven-forty-eight—
           That’s Miss Le Claire; she wants some ice, I’ll bet;
           She stars in “Mrs. Middleton’s Regret.”
         And when you mention peaches—say, she’s great!
         If I could marry her I guess I’d hate
           To have to do it—nit! I’d go and get
           A plug hat and a fur-trimmed coat and let
         The guy that’s managin’ her, pay the freight.

         They say she gets a hundred dollars per;
           I’d like to draw that much a year or two.
           They’d know I’d been around when I got through.
         I wish the