CONTENTS 

CONTENTS

  

  FOREWORD  

  THE WOMAN-HATERS  

THE WOMAN-HATERS

   CHAPTER I  -- MR. SETH ATKINS CHAPTER II  -- MR. JOHN BROWN CHAPTER III  -- MR. BROWN PUTS IN AN APPLICATION CHAPTER IV  -- THE COMING OF JOB CHAPTER V  -- THE GOING OF JOSHUA CHAPTER VI  -- THE PICNIC CHAPTER VII  -- OUT OF THE BAG CHAPTER VIII  -- NEIGHBORS AND WASPS CHAPTER IX  -- THE BUNGALOW GIRL CHAPTER X  -- THE BUNGALOW WOMAN CHAPTER XI  -- BEHIND THE SAND DUNE CHAPTER XII  -- THE LETTER AND THE 'PHONE CHAPTER XIII -- “JOHN BROWN” CHANGES HIS NAME CHAPTER XIV  -- “BENNIE D.”  CHAPTER XV  -- THE VOYAGE OF THE DAISY M. CHAPTER XVI  -- THE EBB TIDE CHAPTER XVII  -- WOMAN-HATERS       

   

    

       THE WOMAN-HATERS     

  

       CHAPTER I     

       MR. SETH ATKINS     

       The stars, like incandescent lights fed by a fast weakening dynamo, grew pale, faded, and, one by one, went out. The slate-colored sea, with its tumbling waves, changed color, becoming a light gray, then a faint blue, and, as the red sun rolled up over the edge of the eastern horizon, a brilliant sapphire, trimmed with a silver white on the shoals and along the beach at the foot of the bluff.     

       Seth Atkins, keeper of the Eastboro Twin-Lights, yawned, 

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