In God we trust, all others pay cash.
Edition: [1st ed.]
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 1966
Place of publication: Garden City, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
Subjects: Boys -- Fiction; Indiana -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
First sentence: I felt like a spy.
Description: Satirical tales of childhood adventures during the Depression in Hohman, Indiana.  A few of these stories show up in the movie A Christmas Story.
Table of contents: title: I We Meet Flick, the Friendly Bartender, 15; title: II Duel in the Snow, or Red Ryder Nails the Cleveland Street Kid, 21; title: III Flick Fails to Recall an Old Song, 49; title: IV The Counterfeit Secret Circle Members Gets the Message, or The Asp Strikes Again, 50; title: V I Poke at an Old Wound, 57; title: VI The Endless Streetcar Ride into the Night, and the Tinfoil Noose, 58; title: VII Flick Offers Me Hard Liquor, 66; title: VIII Hairy Gertz and the Forty Seven Crappies, 67; title: IX I Introduce Flick to the Art World, 82; title: X My Old Man and the Lacivious Special Award that Heralded the Birth of Pop Art, 82; title: XI Flick Makes an Artistic Judgement, 102; title: XII The Magic Mountain, 104; title: XIII Flick Dredges Up a Notorious Sone of a Bitch, 110; title: XIV Grover Dill and the Tasmanian Devil, 112; title: XV Flick Displays a Petty Jealous Streak, 122; title: XVI Ludlow Nissel and the Dago Bomb that Struck Back, 124; title: XVII I Show Off, 145; title: XVIII Uncle Ben and the Side-Splitting Knee-Slapper, or Some Words are Loaded, 147; title: XIX We Have Two Small Visitors, 154; title: XX Old Man Pulaski and the Infamous Jaw-Breaker Blackmail Caper, 157; title: XXI Enter Friendly Fred, 169; title: XXII The Perfect Crime, 172; title: XXIII Flick Baits the Hook, 181; title: XXIV Wilbur Duckworth and His Magic Baton, 183; title: XXV I Relate the Strange ale of the Human Hypodermic Needle, 197; title: XXVI Miss Bryfogel and the Frightening Case of the Speckle-hroated Cuckold, 201; title: XXVII Polka Time, 218; title: XXVIII "Nevermore," Qouth the Assessor, "Nevermore. . . .", 220; title: XXIX The Posse Rides Again, 232; title: XXX Leopold Doppler and the Great Orpheum Gravy Boat Riot, 235; title: XXXI The Day Shift Drops by for a Belt, 262