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    Hooking Watermelons 1898
    Hooking Watermelons 1898
    Hooking Watermelons 1898
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    Hooking Watermelons 1898

    By Edward Bellamy

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    Release dateNov 25, 2013
    Hooking Watermelons 1898
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    Edward Bellamy

    Edward Bellamy (1850-1898) was an American journalist, novelist, and political activist. Born in Chicopee, Massachusetts, he was the son of Baptist minister Rufus King Bellamy and his wife Maria. Educated at public school, he attended Union College for just one year before abandoning his studies to travel throughout Europe. Upon returning, he briefly considered a career in law before settling on journalism. Before his life was upended by tuberculosis at the age of 25, Bellamy worked at the New York Post and Springfield Union. After his diagnosis, he sought to recuperate in the Hawaiian Islands, returning to the United States in 1878. Thereafter, he pursued a career in fiction, publishing such psychological novels as Six to One (1878) and Dr. Heidenhoff’s Process (1880). His first major work was Looking Backward, 2000-1887 (1888), a utopian science fiction novel which became an immediate bestseller in the United States and Great Britain. Its popularity spurred the founding of Nationalist Clubs around the country, wherein readers of Bellamy’s work gathered to discuss the author’s revolutionary vision of a new American society. In 1891, Bellamy founded The New Nation, a political magazine dedicated to the emerging People’s Party. A left-wing agrarian populist, Bellamy advocated for animal rights, wilderness preservation, and equality for women. His novel Equality (1897), a sequel to Looking Backward, expands upon the theories set out in his most popular work and was praised by such political thinkers as John Dewey and Peter Kropotkin. At the height of his career, Bellamy succumbed to tuberculosis in his hometown of Chicopee Falls.

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      Hooking Watermelons 1898 - Edward Bellamy

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      Title: Hooking Watermelons

             1898

      Author: Edward Bellamy

      Release Date: September 21, 2007 [EBook #22703]

      Last Updated: December 17, 2012

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HOOKING WATERMELONS ***

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      HOOKING WATERMELONS

      By Edward Bellamy

      1898

      The train slackened, a brakeman thrust his head in at the door and shouted Bah,—a mysterious formality observed on American trains as they enter towns,—and an elderly lady, two drummers, and a young man with a satchel got out, followed by the languid envy of the other passengers, who had longer or shorter penances of heat and dust before them. The train got under way again, while the knot of loafers about the station proceeded to eye the arrivals as judicially as if they were a committee of safety to protect the village from invasion by doubtful characters. The old lady, apparently laboring under some such impression, regarded them deferentially, as nervous travelers on arriving in strange places generally do regard everybody who seems to feel at home. The drummers briskly disappeared down the main street, each anxious to anticipate the other at the stores. The young man with the satchel, however, did not get away till he had shaken hands and exchanged a few good-natured inquiries with one of the loungers.

      Who's that, Bill? asked one of the group, staring after the retreating figure with lazy curiosity.

      Why, did n't you know him? Thought everybody knew him. That's Arthur Steele, replied the one who had shaken hands, in a tone of cordiality indicating that his politeness had left a pleasant impression on his mind, as Arthur Steele's politeness generally did.

      Who is he, anyhow? pursued the other.

      Why, he 's a Fairfield boy (the brakeman pronounced it Bah), born and brought up here. His folks allers lived right next to mine, and now he's doin' a rushin' lawyer trade down New York, and I expect he's just rakin' the stamps. Did yer see that diamond pin he wore?

      S'pose it's genooine? asked a third loafer, with interest.

      Course it was. I tell you he's on the make, and don't you forgit it. Some fellers allers has luck. Many 's the time he 'n' I 've been in swim-min' and hookin' apples together when we wuz little chaps, pursued Bill, in a tone implying a mild reproach at the deceitfulness of an analogy that after such fair promise in early life had failed to complete itself in their later fortunes.

      Why, darn it all, you know him, Jim, he continued, dropping the tone of pensive reminiscence into which he had momentarily allowed himself to fall. That pretty gal that sings in the Baptis' choir is his sister.

      After a space of silent rumination and jerking of peanut shells upon the track, the group broke up its session, and adjourned by tacit understanding

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