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"I won't take your order unless you throw in that trout dinner"
SKINNER'S DRESS SUIT
BY
HENRY IRVING DODGE
With Illustrations
TORONTO THOMAS ALLEN PUBLISHER 1916
TO MY WIFE
CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
"I WON'T TAKE YOUR ORDER UNLESS YOU THROW IN THAT TROUT DINNER" . . . . . . Frontispiece
"IT'S COME AT LAST! SKINNER'S ASKED FOR A RAISE"
"THE GENERAL EFFECT DOESN'T SEEM RIGHT!"
"THERE," SHE CRIED, "YOU CAN CREDIT YOUR DRESS-SUIT ACCOUNT WITH THAT!"
"MRS. SKINNER, DAUGHTER OF THE LATE ARCHIBALD RUTHERFORD, OF HASTINGS-ON-THE-HUDSON, ACCOMPANIES HER HUSBAND"
"WHY CAN'T I GO WITH THOSE PEOPLE," SHE SNIFFLED
From Drawings by F. Vaux Wilson
SKINNER'S DRESS SUIT
CHAPTER I
SKINNER ASKS FOR A RAISE
"It's come at last! Skinner's asked for a raise"
CHAPTER II
HOW SKINNER GOT HIS RAISE
CHAPTER III
SKINNER'S DRESS SUIT
"The general effect does n't seem right!"
CHAPTER IV
SKINNER'S DRESS SUIT BEGINS TO GET IN ITS FINE WORK
CHAPTER V
THE OPERATING EXPENSES OF THE DRESS SUIT
"There," she cried, "you can credit your dress-suit account with that!"
CHAPTER VI
DODGING A MAGNATE AND WHAT CAME OF IT
CHAPTER VII
SKINNER AND THE "GOLD BUGS"
CHAPTER VIII
CHICKENS COMING HOME TO ROOST
CHAPTER IX
SKINNER FISHES WITH A DIPLOMATIC HOOK
"Mrs. Skinner, daughter of the late Archibald Rutherford, of Hastings-on-the-Hudson, accompanies her husband"
CHAPTER X
SKINNER LANDS A CURMUDGEON
"Why can't _I_ go with those people?" she sniffled
CHAPTER XI
THE OSTRICH FEATHER
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