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Gallegher and Other Stories by Richard Harding Davis
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THE OTHER WOMAN

THE TRAILER FOR ROOM NO. 8

"THERE WERE NINETY AND NINE"

THE CYNICAL MISS CATHERWAIGHT

VAN BIBBER AND THE SWAN-BOATS

VAN BIBBER'S BURGLAR

VAN BIBBER AS BEST MAN




GALLEGHER
A Newspaper Story

[Illustration: "Why, it's Gallegher!" said the night editor.]


We had had so many office-boys before Gallegher came among us that
they had begun to lose the characteristics of individuals, and became
merged in a composite photograph of small boys, to whom we applied the
generic title of "Here, you"; or "You, boy."

We had had sleepy boys, and lazy boys, and bright, "smart" boys, who
became so familiar on so short an acquaintance that we were forced to
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