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The collection presents a series of comic, first-person monologues by a hotel bellboy who idolizes actresses and imagines alternate lives as a wealthy lover or stage star. Through colloquial, humorous verses he recounts bouquet-throwing mishaps, backstage glimpses, romantic fantasies, and the deflating discovery of performers’ ordinary realities, while reflecting on appearances, social aspiration, and gossip. Light irony and working-class vernacular punctuate moments of yearning and self-deprecating wit, shifting between dreamy ambition and pragmatic resignation across short, episodic poems.

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Title: Thrills of a Bell Boy

Author: Samuel E. Kiser

Illustrator: John T. McCutcheon

Release date: March 18, 2018 [eBook #56783]

Language: English

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THRILLS OF A
BELL BOY
By
Samuel Ellsworth Kiser
Author of “Love Sonnets of an Office Boy,”
“Ballads of the Busy Days,” etc.
Illustrated by
John T. McCutcheon
Chicago
Forbes & Company
1906

Copyright, 1904
By the Saturday Evening Post

Copyright, 1906
By Forbes & Company
Colonial Press: Electrotyped and Printed
by C. H. Simonds & Co., Boston, U. S. A.

THRILLS OF A
BELL BOY