Books: Muddle

STACY—Alexander Black — Bobbs-Merrill ($2.00). The walls were not very thick where Stacy lived. Upstairs lived a female person whom he could hear walking, thud, thud, like a shod horse, endlessly to and fro, putting away her laundry out of a package —a year's wash, perhaps. Downstairs in the basement there were two other people—a man named Barrack and a girl he had taken in. This girl had been on the town, but she was pretty. Stacy fell in love with her, fell also for the shod horse abovestairs. He knew his oats, he...

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