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050 4 _aPS
100 1 _aButler, Ellis Parker,
_d1869-1937
245 1 2 _aA little girl in tears
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aProduced from the August 1918 issue of The Green Book Magazine.
500 _aRelease date is 2026-04-23
508 _aPrepared by volunteers at BookCove (bookcove.net)
520 _aA little girl in tears by Ellis Parker Butler is a short story written in the early 20th century. It centers on a complacent clubman who, seeking adventure, wanders into a tenement and stumbles into a case of poverty and bereavement; the likely topic is how a small act of courage and charity can change desperate lives. Bored clubman Morley Smith takes a taxi to the East Side and is mistaken first for an undertaker, then for a social worker named Cardigan by a frail teen, Mary Singleton, whose mother is mentally fragile and whose drunken father is dangerous. Learning that Mary wants her mother safely taken away to harmless work so Mary can enter a hospital, Morley improvises: posing as a “lawyer,” he quietly gives Mary his own money as if it were an inheritance, buying them time and hope. Mary’s former sweetheart, John Dredd, slips in and hides, and after Mary revives, Morley discreetly alerts her to John’s presence and departs. Across the hall he glimpses a neighbor family grieving a dead child, and he later sends white flowers, sealing his adventure with a final gesture of sympathy. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cChicago, IL: The Story-Press Corporation, 1918
653 _aShort stories
653 _aNew York (N.Y.) -- Fiction
653 _aRich people -- Fiction
653 _aTenement houses -- Fiction
653 _aPoor -- Fiction
700 1 _aHoward, Oscar,
_d1888-1942
830 0 _aProduced from the August 1918 issue of The Green Book Magazine.
856 4 _uhttps://s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/luminist/PU/GRE_1918_08.pdf
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78529
999 _c119247
_d119247