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    Lighter Than You Think
    Lighter Than You Think
    Lighter Than You Think
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    Lighter Than You Think

    By Nelson Slade Bond

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Lighter Than You Think - Nelson Slade Bond

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      Title: Lighter Than You Think

      Author: Nelson Bond

      Release Date: August 15, 2009 [EBook #29698]

      Language: English

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      It's possible that you won't agree with us that Pat Pending's latest adventure is a delightful story—possible IF you haven't been used to laughing in recent years. Blue Book printed more than a dozen of these stories by Nelson Bond about the greatest inventulator of all time.

      lighter

      than

      you

      think

      by NELSON BOND

      Sandy's eyes needed only jet propulsion to become flying saucers. Wasn't Pat wonderful? she beamed, at everyone.

      Some joker in the dear, dead days now virtually beyond recall won two-bit immortality by declaring that, What this country needs is a good five-cent cigar.

      Which is, of course, Victorian malarkey. What this country really needs is a good five-cent nickel. Or perhaps a good cigar-shaped spaceship. There's a fortune waiting somewhere out in space for the man who can go out there and claim it. A fortune! And if you think I'm just talking through my hat, lend an ear ...

      Joyce started the whole thing. Or maybe I did when for the umpteenth time I suggested she should marry me. She smiled in a way that showed she didn't disapprove of my persistence, but loosed a salvo of devastating negatives.

      No deal, she crisped decisively. Know why? No dough!

      But, sugar, I pleaded, two can live as cheaply as one—

      This is true, replied Joyce, "only of guppies. Understand, Don, I don't mind changing my name from Carter to Mallory. In fact, I'd rather like to. But I have no desire whatever to be known to the neighbors as 'that poor little Mrs. Mallory in last year's coat.'

      I'll marry you, she continued firmly, "when,

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