This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ... DR. BLOSSOM* """THE paper," said Dr. Blossom, his spectacles 1 positively glinting with satisfaction, "has been carefully planned to meet a long-felt want. I have given immense thought to the matter. Look for yourself." He handed me a copy. "But first," he said, "I ought, perhaps, to tell you how it ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ... DR. BLOSSOM* """THE paper," said Dr. Blossom, his spectacles 1 positively glinting with satisfaction, "has been carefully planned to meet a long-felt want. I have given immense thought to the matter. Look for yourself." He handed me a copy. "But first," he said, "I ought, perhaps, to tell you how it originated. You must know that before I retired and entered upon the present scheme, I had a very extensive practice in a great Flat centre of London. Where there are flats, as you may have observed, there are babies; for flats are largely the homes of those delightful people, on Sundays and in the evenings rarely seen apart, whom we refer to as young couples." The old gentleman's spectacles again glistened with goodwill to man as he said these words. "I suppose," he continued, " I have had during the past ten years an average of three births a week, almost all in a square mile of mansions, and many of them, a great proportion of them, first children." His glasses glistened again. "Ah," he went on, "it is the first children that count!" He sighed. "And this," he said, "brings me to my point. My point is that no matter what the ordinary person * From One Day and Another. says, whether it is the father or the father-in-law, the mother or the mother-in-law, the nurse or the doctor, or any one else: no matter who it is that speaks, or what the superlatives that are employed, no baby is admired sufficiently to please the mother. There, sir, you have the kernel of the whole matter." I agreed. "In my large practice," Dr. Blossom continued, "I naturally observed this difficulty--indeed, it was forced upon me daily, for with all my endeavours I also have constantly fallen short of what is expected of me; and when, the other day, I retired, I...
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Very Good/Near Fine. No Dustjacket. Size: 4.25 x 7 x 5/8; Type: Book 1913/Gold-Leafed Upper Pageblock. This is a small book of different forms of artistic writing. "The present volume is a companion volume to 'A Little Of Everything', and, like that volume, is made up of selections of several of my books, with 1 early & hitherto uncollected piece added." The cover has light shelfwear, and a rear upper to lower scratch. There is a nameplate on the inner front cover, & a prior bookseller's note on the FEP. The pages are clean, crisp, and the perfect unaged color.
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