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The Trimming of Goosie

Chapter 20: Transcriber's notes
By James Hopper
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About This Book

A young husband nicknamed Goosie struggles with an embarrassing compulsive ritual that bursts out as comic flapping and a cock-a-doodle-doo, which he recognizes as a prelude to reckless adventures. He navigates married domestic life with his tolerant wife while recalling youthful escapades—running away with the circus, shipboard voyages—that followed the same impulse. He tries practical remedies, sketching lines and techniques to master the urge, while the narrative traces small-town routines, private absurdities, and the tension between social appearances and private eccentricity. Episodes blend gentle satire, physical comedy, and introspective humor as the protagonist seeks to understand and control the habit that repeatedly propels him toward folly.

Transcriber's notes

The following were identified as spelling or typographic errors and have been emended as noted.

Page 3 - corrected calisthenics
The mirror before which he had been performing his morning calesthenics faced him uncompromisingly;
Page 27 - corrected you're
"Well," he said finally, "maybe your right.
Page 41 - corrected telephone
at the sound of the telphone bell.
Page 42 - corrected harassing
which had suddenly solved for her the harrassing problem of the spring hat
Page 82 - corrected resonant
As it slid slowly out beneath the resonnant cupola,
Page 105 - corrected susurrant
From their feet the meadow spreads, fresh and lush, sussurant with the hidden flow of a brook,
Page 130 - corrected gliding
and upon the stage, giding in from the West like a Cinderella coach drawn by six white mice,
Page 135 - added opening quotation mark
And so I fought it, John, I fought your love.
Page 172 - left as is - sizzing as unclear what was correct
and finally he came down to her from the very zenith of the dome in a sizzing straight line which opened
Page 203 - added closing quotation mark
"It shall be regarded as a part of this agreement that the length of the flying apparatus, whatsoever it may be, shall be determined by the party of the first part.

All other unusual, colloquial or non-standard spelling and punctuation has been left as in the original book.