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ANTHONY JOHN
BY
JEROME K. JEROME
Author of “Passing of the Third Floor Back,”
“All Roads Lead to Calvary,” etc.
NEW YORK
DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY
1923
Copyright, 1923,
By DODD, MEAD & COMPANY, Inc.
PRINTED IN U. S. A.
VAIL-BALLOU COMPANY
BINGHAMTON AND NEW YORK
ANTHONY JOHN
PAGE | |
CHAPTER I | 1 |
CHAPTER II | 15 |
CHAPTER III | 29 |
CHAPTER IV | 43 |
CHAPTER V | 59 |
CHAPTER VI | 74 |
CHAPTER VII | 89 |
CHAPTER VIII | 107 |
CHAPTER IX | 121 |
CHAPTER X | 136 |
CHAPTER XI | 157 |
CHAPTER XII | 172 |
CHAPTER XIII | 189 |
CHAPTER XIV | 201 |
CHAPTER XV | 214 |
CHAPTER XVI | 227 |
CHAPTER XVII | 248 |
CHAPTER XVIII | 264 |
ANTHONY JOHN
Anthony John Strong’nth’arm—to distinguish him from his father,whose Christian names were John Anthony—was born in a mean street ofMillsborough some forty-five years before the date when this storyshould of rights begin. For the first half-minute of his existencehe lay upon the outstretched hand of Mrs. Plumberry and neithermoved nor breathed. The very young doctor, nervous by reason of thisbeing his first maternity case since his setting up in practice forhimself, and divided between his duty to the child or to the mothe