Franklin, Edgar, [pseud.], 1879-1958 / 2008-06-25 00:00:00

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Mr. Hawkins' Humorous Adventures
by
Edgar Franklin

1904


[Illustration: "That's enough, Hawkins," I said, "come home."]


CHAPTER I.

Hawkins is part inventor and part idiot.
Hawkins has money, which generally mitigates idiocy; but in his case it
also allows free rein to his inventive genius, and that is a bad thing.
When I decided to build a nice, quiet summer home in the Berkshires, I
paid for the ground before discovering that the next villa belonged to
Hawkins.
Had I known then what I know now, my country-seat would be located
somewhere in central Illinois or western Oregon; but at that time my
knowledge of Hawkins extended no farther than the facts that he resided
a few doors below me in New York, and that we exchanged a kindly smile
every morning on the L.
One day last August, having mastered the mechanism of our little steam
runabout, my wife ventured out alone, to call upon Mrs.
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