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Shorty McCabe

by Sewell Ford

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First published: 1906
Pages: 149

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CHAPTER I
33:27
CHAPTER II
39:04
CHAPTER III
33:51
CHAPTER IV
35:31
CHAPTER V
31:54
CHAPTER VI
28:36
CHAPTER VII
25:23
CHAPTER VIII
23:34
CHAPTER IX
23:00
CHAPTER X
23:16
CHAPTER XI
21:56
CHAPTER XII
20:30
CHAPTER XIII
22:15
CHAPTER XIV
24:34
CHAPTER XV
24:14

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About this book

A retired prizefighter who now trains other men for a living, Shorty McCabe narrates his own adventures in thick New York slang, telling them to an old schoolmate who has become a magazine writer. The episodes run together loosely: a chance meeting on a train with the dubious Leonidas Macklin Dodge, a turn at reviving the reluctant invalid Homer Fales, and a long stint as sparring partner and companion to an unnamed rich man known only as the Boss. That job carries Shorty well past Manhattan, to upstate farms, Bermuda, Monte Carlo and an Italian castle the Boss buys for his honeymoon. Sewell Ford published it in 1906, and the appeal is less the plot than the voice, a wisecracking vernacular that early 20th century magazine readers bought by the volume.

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Sewell Ford

Sewell Ford (1868-1946) was an American humorist and author best known for his popular Torchy and Shorty McCabe stories, written in the colorful vernacular of the era.