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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1886 Original Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin and Company Subjects: Children's stories Children's literature Fiction / Anthologies Fiction / Short Stories History / General Literary Criticism / American / General Literary Criticism / Children's Literature Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original.... More

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1886 Original Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin and Company Subjects: Children's stories Children's literature Fiction / Anthologies Fiction / Short Stories History / General Literary Criticism / American / General Literary Criticism / Children's Literature Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: THE SOAP-BUBBLE QUESTION. TWO OPEN LETTERS.1 LETTER I. Pnra Pond, December 1, 1883. My DEAR AND VERITABLE THANKFUL HOLME : -- Although I cannot claim your actual personal acquaintance -- having only held telephonic communication with you when listening (as a reporter) for the transmissions from Innerland - -- I am venturing upon this direct appeal in the confidence that one whom I have so closely approached with a sympathy that has almost made us for the time identical may suffer the liberty graciously, and give me, if possible, some response. I do not even know precisely how to address you ; as since I last hailed and heard from you over the Innerland lines, it may easily have happened that you should have changed both abiding and name ; but I risk this through the official centre, trusting that its call may find you by some tingle of the wire not yet loosened or cast off, which holds between the utterance of you there received, and your substantial somewhereness, which I doubt not. Will that do for regulation preamble, and may I rush at once, now, to my purpose ? The fact is, dear Thankful, I am in a scrape through you. I find myself involved in a kind of " Hatchet " game, if you know what that is, and obliged to turn to you for an answer to pass on. " I have a hatchet." 1 Printed in " Wide Awake, " in response, as notes and queries, " eli...

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