Buttered Side Down
"And so," the story writers used to say, "they lived happily ever after."
Um-m-mâmaybe. After the glamour had worn off, and the glass slippers were worn out, did the Prince never find Cinderella's manner redolent of the kitchen hearth; and was it never necessary that he remind her to be more careful of her finger-nails and grammar? After Puss in Boots had won wealth and a wife for his young master did not that gentleman often fume with chagrin because the neighbors, perhaps, refused to call on the lady of the former poor miller's son?
It is a great risk to take with one's book-children. These stories make no such promises. They stop just short of the phrase of the old story writers, and end truthfully, thus: And so they lived. E. F. (Summary from the Foreword to "Buttered Side Down")
Genre(s): General Fiction, Humorous Fiction, Romance
Language: English
Section | Chapter | Reader | Time |
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Play 00 | Foreword | Xe Sands |
00:01:25 |
Play 01 | The Frog and the Puddle | Xe Sands |
00:17:54 |
Play 02 | The Man Who Came Back | Xe Sands |
00:26:07 |
Play 03 | What She Wore | Xe Sands |
00:24:43 |
Play 04 | A Bush League Hero | Xe Sands |
00:23:59 |
Play 05 | The Kitchen Side of the Door | Xe Sands |
00:27:07 |
Play 06 | One of the Old Girls | Xe Sands |
00:23:57 |
Play 07 | Maymeys from Cuba | Xe Sands |
00:23:40 |
Play 08 | The Leading Lady | Xe Sands |
00:18:55 |
Play 09 | That Home-Town Feeling | Xe Sands |
00:23:38 |
Play 10 | The Homely Heroine | Xe Sands |
00:20:15 |
Play 11 | Sun Dried | Xe Sands |
00:18:48 |
Play 12 | Where the Car Turns at 18th | Xe Sands |
00:25:17 |