The Edward T. LeBlanc Memorial Dime Novel Bibliography

Item - The General's Bet

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(source: Digital Library @ Villanova University)
Online Full Text: Digital Library @ Villanova University
Series: Boys of America v. 1 no. 25 — page 7
Subject / Tag: Sketch
Part of: Boys of America, v. I, no. 25, March 22, 1902 (Work)
Date: March 22, 1902
First Sentence: The following story is told in military circles: An officer was celebrated in his garrison for winning every bet.
Last Sentence: "Your naivete is truly charming. Your winning of the hundred dollars cost me two thousand, which Wilson bet me on the day he was leaving, that he would make you, on the first evening of meeting, take off your shirt in the presence of your fellow-officers, and that you yourself would inform me of it."

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