BUTTERED SIDE DOWN
"on her face was a new, strange look, as of something half forgotten"
BUTTERED SIDE DOWN
STORIES BY
BY
EDNA FERBER
AUTHOR OF
DAWN O’HARA
NEW YORK
GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS
COPYRIGHT, 1912, BY
FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1911, 1912, BY
THE PHILLIPS PUBLISHING COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1912, BY
COLLIER AND NAST, INC.
COPYRIGHT, 1911, BY
THE CURTISS PUBLISHING COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1911, BY
STANDARD FASHION COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1911, BY
THE RIDGWAY COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1911, BY
THE RED BOOK CORPORATION
All rights reserved
March, 1912
FOREWORD
“And so,” the story writers used to say, “they lived happily ever after.”
Um-m-m—maybe. After the glamour had worn off, and the glass slippers were worn out, did the Prince never find Cinderella’s manner redolent of the kitchen hearth; and was it never necessary that he remind her to be more careful of her finger-nails and grammar? After Puss in Boots had won wealth and a wife for his young master did not that gentleman often fume with chagrin because the neighbors, perhaps, refused to call on the lady of the former poor miller’s son?
It is a great risk to take with one’s book-children. These stories make no such promises. They stop just short of the phrase of the old story writers, and end truthfully, thus:
And so they lived.
CONTENTS
| PAGE | ||
| I. | The Frog and the Puddle | 1 |
| II. | The Man Who Came Back | 17 |
| III. | What She Wore | 38 |
| IV. | A Bush League Hero | 58 |
| V. | The Kitchen Side of the Door | 78 |
| VI. | One of the Old Girls | 102 |
| VII. | Maymeys from Cuba | 121 |
| VIII. | The Leading Lady | 139 |
| IX. | That Home-Town Feeling | 156 |
| X. | The Homely Heroine | 176 |
| XI. | Sun Dried | 193 |
| XII. | Where the Car Turns at 18th | 210 |
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