Flathers

"Flathers," she said, "it's him coming round the house now.

A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice 1906

England, Flathers was offered his life on condition that he take the recently enacted Oath of Allegiance.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

Flathers, at the advanced age of eleven, had been so impressed by the injustice of social conditions that he had dedicated himself to a life of crime.

A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice 1906

This agreement having been arrived at, Myrtella reached for her broom, and began such a vigorous attack on the steps, that Flathers was forced to conclude that his presence could be cheerfully dispensed with.

A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice 1906

I'm puttin 'by each week, and the time ain't distant when I'll be settin' at the head of my own boardin'-house table, an 'it will be' Miss Flathers, 'if you please!

A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice 1906

The Flathers 'cottage, consisting of two rooms and a half attic, rested its weight against the cottage next it, with something of the blind reliance that Phineas Flathers rested upon the Church.

A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice 1906

Their friendship dated from a memorable day when Skeeter had for the first time heard of the incubator incident, and had promptly accosted the Flathers 'foundling as "Chicken."

A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice 1906

Myrtella, picking her way through the mud, was just turning the corner of the Flathers 'house when her eyes fell upon a broken window-pane stuffed with a woolen skirt which she had given to Maria to make over into trousers for

A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice 1906

Only Chick survived, the ash-barrel baby, who really was not theirs at all, but who having begun life in their back yard, continued as everything else continued when once established at the Flathers ', for the simple reason that no one ever took the trouble to change the existing disorder of things.

A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice 1906

Over a ram-shackled fence, and up a dilapidated porch he clambered like a cat, until he reached the small loft in the Flathers 'two-roomed mansion which he called home.

A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice 1906