9781153760263

The Madigans

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ISBN13: 9781153760263

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Excerpt: ...asked Bep, feeling it to be the partizans duty to doubt. "Uh-huh " The small fabricator nodded her head in slow and awful confirmation. "That shows, Frank Madigan " said Bep, scornfully turning her back. "He never whips with more than two fingers." And yet it was the confident belief of the Madigans that if it had been anybody but Sissy, that somebody would have been eaten alive It was Split who next adopted the Last Straw. Under her tutelage Frank learned to climb her sisters body and stand upright and fearless on her shoulders. She was also initiated into the great game of "fats," which the Madigans played winter evenings on the crumb-cloth in the dining-room; said crumb-cloth being printed in large squares of red and white, one of which was chalked off for the ring. Pg. 197 Franks induction into the game led to a grand battle between Split and Sissy, the latter contending that the babys fingers could not properly handle and shoot the marbles. But Sissy ought to have known better than to make such a point, as the Madigans had a peculiar way of playing fats, for which Frank

ISBN-13

9781153760263

ISBN-10

1153760266

Weight

0.38 Pounds

Dimensions

9.00 x 6.00 x 0.26 In

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$19.99

Format

Paperback

Pages

110 pages

Publisher

Published On

2010-03-01



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