The Lion and The Mouse - A Story Of American Life

The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Lion and The Mouse, by Charles Klein 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.net Title: The Lion and The Mouse A Story Of American Life Author: Charles Klein Release Date: November 29, 2004 [EBook #14204] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE LION AND THE MOUSE *** Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Daniel Emerson Griffith and the PG Online Distributed Proofreading Team. “Go to Washington and save my father's life.”—Act III. Frontispiece. THE LION AND THE MOUSE BY CHARLES KLEIN A Story of American Life NOVELIZED FROM THE PLAY BY ARTHUR HORNBLOW “Judges and Senators have been bought for gold; Love and esteem have never been sold.”—Pope ILLUSTRATED BY STUART TRAVIS AND SCENES FROM THE PLAY GROSSET & DUNLAP Publishers—New York G.W. DILLINGHAM COMPANY Entered at Stationers' Hall, London Issued August, 1906 CONTENTS Chapter I Chapter II Chapter III Illustrations Chapter IV Chapter V Photograph of Shirley and Mr. Ryder Chapter VI Pencil Drawing of the Meeting Chapter VII Photograph of the Ryder Household Chapter VIII Pencil Drawing of Shirley and her Chapter IX Father Chapter X Photograph of Shirley and Mr. Ryder Chapter XI Photograph of Shirley and Mr.