Laughter Limited Author:Nina Wilcox Putnam General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1922 Original Publisher: A.L. Burt Subjects: Fiction / Romance / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access t... more »o Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER V T HAVE always claimed that nobody can get some- thing for nothing in this world, but a railroad's receiving money for the upper berth in a sleeping car comes pretty close to that. Like a lot of folks who have never traveled much I thought taking one would be a economy. And maybe I did save, for I don't really know how much should a person count as overhead, meaning ruining my only good hat against the ceiling through climbing up there with it on the first night out of New York, and the engine being seized with a convulsive fit of coughing immediately after. Or how great an amount travelers are accustomed to charging off to general wear and tear. And by wear I mean acquiring a Jacob's ladder in my best silk stocking climbing down the Pullman ladder, and tear being occasioned when I saved myself from being flung bodily into the Grand Canon of the Colored Porter by grabbing at a real filet-lace blouse which had got hung on the hook by the filet part. Well anyways, when I come to figure it up, by saving twelve dollars on the berth I was out about twenty-five in other matters. The morning after my arrival in New York, it sure was necessary for me to go easy with my cash, for when I had bought my ticket to Los Angeles and telegraphed Stricky not to send my contract East because I was on my way, my roll looked like it hadbeen dieting. But I forgot all that when I walked down the platform at the Grand Central Station and saw the Wolverine actually waiting for me -- for me! Sweet daddy, that was some sensation! I was the first one ...« less