{"product_id":"2940013499331","title":"THE CASTING AWAY OF MRS. LECKS AND MRS. ALESHINE","description":"PART I                                                        PAGE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  THESE TWO WORTHY DAMES SPENT THE GREATER PART\u003cbr\u003e  OF THEIR TIME ON DECK                               _Frontispiece_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  DO YOU SEE THAT BOAT THERE?                                      6\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  MRS. ALESHINE PROVED TO BE A MORE DIFFICULT SUBJECT             11\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  WE WILL PULL AFTER THEM                                         15\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  STAND UP STRAIGHT, AND DON'T TALK SO MUCH                       23\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  VIGOROUSLY WINKING AND BLOWING                                  25\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  THEY GOT ON REMARKABLY WELL                                     27\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  THERE'S NOTHIN' LIKE SAUSAGES FOR SHIPWRECK                     31\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  PART II\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  MRS. LECKS WALKED BOLDLY UP TO THE FRONT DOOR\u003cbr\u003e  AND PLIED THE KNOCKER                                           45\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  I CLIMBED UP ONE OF THE COLUMNS                                 48\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  I GUESS YOU'LL BE COMFORTABLE, MR. CRAIG                        52\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  THAT YELLER FROCK                                               55\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  MRS. ALESHINE HAD BEEN HARD AT WORK ALL THE\u003cbr\u003e  MORNING                                                         61\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \"THERE'S ANOTHER THING,\" SAID SHE, \"THAT I'VE\u003cbr\u003e  BEEN THINKIN' ABOUT\"                                            67\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  MRS. LECKS AND MRS. ALESHINE STANDING ON THE END\u003cbr\u003e  OF THE LITTLE WHARF                                             72\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  PART III\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  MR. ENDERTON WAS A PERSON OF ANOTHER SORT                       83\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  I DID ALL THAT I COULD TO MAKE MISS RUTH'S TIME\u003cbr\u003e  PASS AGREEABLY                                                  87\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  THEY WERE EVIDENTLY WAITING FOR ME                              91\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  SMOKING THEIR PIPES IN PEACE                                    99\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  IT WAS PERFECTLY SAFE                                          102\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  I KNOWED IT WAS ALL RIGHT                                      105\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  THEY ASSISTED RUTH TO ARRAY HERSELF                            111\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  PART IV\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  THE ASCENT OF THE MOUNTAIN WAS SLOW AND TEDIOUS                121\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \"WHAT HAS HAPPENED?\" I EXCLAIMED                               123\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  MRS. LECKS WAS SITTING ON A STONE                              129\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  I SOON HAD A CRACKLING FIRE                                    135\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  COULD YOU LEND ME A SMALL IRON POT?                            141\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  WE WERE ABOUT TO SEND HIM A BASKET                        150, 151\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  PART V\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  WE BEGAN TO SLIDE DOWNWARD                                     163\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  OH, WHICH IS EMILY, AND WHICH IS LUCILLE?                      167\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  WE DREW UP ABOUT THE FIRE                                      174\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  REVEALING THE FAMILIAR FAT LITTLE GINGER-JAR                   186\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  RUTH AND MISS LUCILLE STRUCK UP A WARM ACQUAINTANCE            191\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  PART VI\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  THE IMPIDENCE OF HIM!                                          204\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  ELIZABETH GROOTENHEIMER                                        215\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \"YOU MAN!\" SHRIEKED MRS. LECKS                                 218\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  HE RESPECTFULLY TOUCHED IT WITH HIS LIPS                       227\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  THE GREATEST WORK OF DECORATION WAS RESERVED\u003cbr\u003e  BY THE RED-BEARDED COXSWAIN FOR HIMSELF                        231\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Illustration]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE CASTING AWAY OF MRS. LECKS AND MRS. ALESHINE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE CASTING AWAY OF MRS. LECKS AND MRS. ALESHINE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Illustration]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI was on my way from San Francisco to Yokohama, when in a very desultory\u003cbr\u003eand gradual manner I became acquainted with Mrs. Lecks and Mrs.\u003cbr\u003eAleshine. The steamer, on which I was making a moderately rapid passage\u003cbr\u003etoward the land of the legended fan and the lacquered box, carried a\u003cbr\u003efair complement of passengers, most of whom were Americans; and, among\u003cbr\u003ethese, my attention was attracted from the very first day of the voyage\u003cbr\u003eto two middle-aged women who appeared to me very unlike the ordinary\u003cbr\u003etraveler or tourist. At first sight they might have been taken for\u003cbr\u003efarmers' wives who, for some unusual reason, had determined to make a\u003cbr\u003evoyage across the Pacific; but, on closer observation, one would have\u003cbr\u003ebeen more apt to suppose that they belonged to the families of\u003cbr\u003eprosperous tradesmen in some little country town, where, besides the\u003cbr\u003earts of rural housewifery, there would be opportunities of becoming\u003cbr\u003eacquainted in some degree with the ways and manners of the outside\u003cbr\u003eworld.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47079566606576,"sku":"2940013499331","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013499331_p0.jpg?v=1763593112","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013499331","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}