Bachelor Buttons (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Alive with an amount of innate cussedness pos sessed by few other things, saving always neck ties, which - but, as our anglo-indian friend says, that is another story. Did you ever lose your collar button? Yes, I'll wager and did you find it easily? N 0, I'll wager Odds. You are dressing in a hurry, your collar but ton slips its moorings and drops to the floor; you look about for it; carelessly at first, for, of course, it must be almost at your feet - then with more interest - then you drop on your knees and grope for ir - then you take up rugs - look in the scrap-basket - bump your head against the table corner and use language un fit for publication, and finally, by the merest accident, you overturn your slipper, almost at the other end Of the room, and out rolls that pesky bit Of gold. Call that inanimate? Not much - it is fiendish; the miserable little creat ure knows its usefulness - knows our utter and abject helplessness without it - knows.

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