Para Handy and Other Tales
Edition: N.e.of 1931 Ed edition
Publisher: Lomond Books
Published: January 1, 1900
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9780947782887
Subjects: 19th century fiction; Modern fiction; Short stories
First sentence: A SHORT, thick-set man, with a red beard, a hard round felt hat, ridiculously out of harmony with a blue pilot jacket and trousers and a seaman's jersey, his hands immersed deeply in those pockets our fathers (and the heroes of Rabelais) used to wear behind a front flap, he would have attracted my notice even if he had not, unaware of my presence so close behind him, been humming to himself the chorus of a song that used to be very popular on gabbarts1, but is now gone out of date, like "The Captain with the Whiskers took a Sly Glance at Me".