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Jack and the Check Book
John Kendrick Bangs
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Bangs is in top form in his version of this small collection of timeless fairy tales. If you don't immediately recognize Jack and the Check Book, Puss, the Promoter, and the Golden Fleece, don't worry, you soon will.
Bangs is in top form in his version of this small collection of timeless fairy tales. If you don't immediately recognize Jack and the Check Book, Puss, the Promoter, and the Golden Fleece, don't worry, you soon will.
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"It is very late," said the woman. "Who do you suppose can be calling at this hour? Be careful when you open the door—it may be a highwayman."[Pg 44]
"I should welcome a highwayman if he could help me to find anything in the house worth stealing," said Wilbraham, as he rose from his chair and started for the door. "Whoever it may be, it is a wild night, and despite our poverty we can still keep open house for the stranger on the moor."
He hastened to the door and flung it wide.
"Who's there?" he cried, gazing out into the blackness of the storm.
A heavy gust of wind, icy cold, blew out his candle, and a great mass of sleet coming in with it fell with a dull, sodden thud on t. . . Read More
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Community Reviews
My 3rd bang book in as many days; good fun to listen to while doing other things
Toppletons client my favourite so far
Bangs wrote this around 1910, a look at the end of the gilded age, using rewritten fairy tales. There is a lot of financial chicanery in these stories and some work better than others. Jack and the Check Book, the story, seemed to be about the joy of check kiting. Nice to know. The problem is that t