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Clarence Day's comic stories of his father, Clarence "Clare" Day Senior are taken from the "New Yorker" magazine. They portray a rambunctious, overburdened Wall Street broker who demands that everything from his family should be just so. When it isn't, all hell breaks loose and an amusing... read more
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First Sentence edit
Once in a long while, as a great treat, Father took me down to his office.
Table of Contents edit
1. A Holiday with Father
2. Father on Horseback
3. Father is Firm with His Ailments
4. Father Wakes up the Village
5. Father Declines to be Killed
6. Father Hires a Cook
7. Father Feels Starved
8. Father Thumps on the Floor
9. The Gift of Song
10. The Noblest Instrument
11. Father Tries to Make Mother Like Figures
12. Father rand His Hard-Rocking Ship
13. Father Has Trouble with the Land of Egypt
14. Father Teaches Me to be Prompt
15. Father Interferes with the Twenty-third Psalm
16. Mother and the Armenian
17. Father Opens My Mail
18. Father Sends Me to the World’s Fair
19. Father’s Old Trousers
20. Father Lets in the Telephone
21. Father Isn’t Much Help
22. Father Sews on a Button
23. Father rand the Crusader’s Third Wife
24. Father among the Potted Palms
25. Father Has a Bad Night
26. Father and His Other Selves
27. Father Finds Guests in the House
28. Father and His Pet Rug
29. Father and the French Court
30. Father Plans to Get Out
Authors & Contributors edit
- Clarence Day, Jr. (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: A. A. Knopf
Country: United States
Publication Date: 1935
ISBN: Add the ISBN.
Page Count: 258
Publisher: A. A. Knopf
Country: United States
Publication Date: 1935
ISBN: Add the ISBN.
Page Count: 258
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 920
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