The Cruise of the Jasper B. by Don Marquis

THE CRUISE OF THE JASPER B. BY DON MARQUIS TO ALL THE COPYREADERS ON ALL THE NEWSPAPERS OF AMERICA CHAPTER I A BRIGHT BLADE LEAPS FROM A RUSTY SCABBARD On an evening in April, 191-, Clement J. Cleggett walked sedately into the news room of the New York Enterprise with a drab-colored walking-stick in his

Hermione and Her Little Group of Serious Thinkers by Don Marquis

Typed in WordPerfect V7 for Windows 95. Converted to ASCII DOS delimited text by WP7. Original WP version is available if desired. email: Jim@halcyon.com JimEnnes@aol.com Jim_Ennes_Jr@juno.com HERMIONE AND HER LITTLE GROUP OF SERIOUS THINKERS BY DON MARQUIS CONTENTS PROEM Introducing Some of Hermione’s Friends Sincerity in the Home Vibrations Aren’t the Russians Wonderful? How Suffering

Dreams & Dust by Don Marquis

Note: In “The Parting,” page 161, line 4, I have changed “they face” to “thy face”; in “The Struggle,” page 173, line 4, I have changed “l!o” to “lo!” DREAMS & DUST POEMS BY DON MARQUIS TO MY MOTHER VIRGINIA WHITMORE MARQUIS CONTENTS PROEM DAYLIGHT HUMORS THIS IS ANOTHER DAY APRIL SONG THE EARTH, IT

Danny’s Own Story, by Don Marquis

DANNY’S OWN STORY BY DON MARQUIS TO MY WIFE CHAPTER I HOW I come not to have a last name is a question that has always had more or less aggervation mixed up with it. I might of had one jest as well as not if Old Hank Walters hadn’t been so all-fired, infernal bull-headed