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Beadle's Dime Library No. 9

1877 · Free to read

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About this issue

Handy Andy by Samuel Lover This serialized Irish comedy novel follows Andy Rooney, a well-meaning but catastrophically inept young man whose clumsy meddling brings disaster wherever he goes. The narrative establishes Andy's childhood accidents—his mother barely surviving his birth, his father's furniture destroyed—before moving to his employment. While attempting to retrieve a wild horse, Andy and his friend Paudeen collapse a wooden bridge and plunge into the river, causing chaos that forces Andy to avoid his acquaintance Owny for years. As an adult, Andy enters service as a stable-helper and whipper-in to a tolerant squire. The text humorously depicts his spectacular misunderstandings: throwing out a window when instructed, calling a silver fork a "split spoon," and repeatedly misinterpreting "soda-water" as "soap and wather" to the exasperation of the harried butler Mr. Morgan. Andy's earnest incompetence at basic household tasks provides the comic foundation.

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