Edward Everett Hale
If, Yes and Perhaps
Four Possibilities and Six Exaggerations with Some Bits of Fact
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4064066160760
Table of Contents
THE OLD AND THE NEW, FACE TO FACE.
THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE RESOLUTE.
MY DOUBLE, AND HOW HE UNDID ME
By J. THOMAS DARRAGH (late C. C. S.) .
Dedication
Preface to the Third Edition
The Children of the Public Chapter I Chapter II Chapter III Chapter IV Chapter Last
The Old and the New, Face To Face
The Last Voyage of the Resolute
My Double, and how he undid me
THE CHILDREN OF THE PUBLIC.
[This story originated in the advertisement of the humbug which it describes. Some fifteen or twenty years since, when gift enterprises rose to one of their climaxes, a gift of a large sum of money, I think $10,000, was offered in New York to the most successful ticket-holder in some scheme, and one of $5,000 to the second. It was arranged that one of these parties should be a man and the other a woman; and the amiable suggestion was added, on the part of the undertaker of the enterprise, that if the gentleman and lady who drew these prizes liked each other sufficiently well when the distribution was made, they might regard the decision as a match made for them in Heaven, and take the money as the dowry of the bride. This thoroughly practical, and, at the same time, thoroughly absurd suggestion, arrested the attention of a distinguished story-teller, a dear friend of mine, who proposed to me that we should each of us write