A Guest at the Ludlow and Other Stories

The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Guest at the Ludlow and Other Stories, by Edgar Wilson (Bill) Nye This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: A Guest at the Ludlow and Other Stories Author: Edgar Wilson (Bill) Nye Release Date: April 4, 2010 [EBook #31884] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GUEST AT THE LUDLOW *** Produced by D Alexander and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net A GUEST AT THE LUDLOW AND OTHER STORIES BY EDGAR WILSON NYE [BILL NYE] WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY LOUIS BRAUNHOLD INDIANAPOLIS AND KANSAS CITY THE BOWEN-MERRILL COMPANY M DCCC XCVII Copyright, 1896 BY THE BOWEN-MERRILL CO. A GUEST AT THE LUDLOW You can pay five cents to the Elevated Railroad and get here, or you can put some other man's nickel in your own slot and come here with an attendant (Page 2) This volume was prepared for publication by the author a few months before his death, and is now published by arrangement with Mrs. Edgar Wilson Nye. CONTENTS PAGE. I. A Guest at the Ludlow 1 II. Old Polka Dot's Daughter 13 III. A Great Cerebrator 22 IV. Hints for the Household 33 V. A Journey Westward 42 VI. A Prophet and a Piute 52 VII. The Sabbath of a Great Author 64 VIII. A Flyer in Dirt 69 IX.