Number Fifty-Six
(2017)

Fiction

eAudiobook

Provider: hoopla

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PUBLISHED
[United States] : Red Door Consulting, 2017
Made available through hoopla
EDITION
Unabridged
DESCRIPTION

1 online resource (1 audio file (16 min.)) : digital

ISBN/ISSN
9781509478903 MWT18586603, 1509478906 18586603
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Read by Cathy Dobson

Stephen P. H. Butler Leacock (1869 - 1944) was a Canadian teacher, political scientist, writer, and humorist. "Number Fifty-Six" is a humorous tale of a Chinese laundryman who gets to know his clients through their laundry habits. He is able to infer much from the state of the various shirts, handkerchiefs, waistcoats etc. which are delivered to him for washing. Of all his clients he is most fascinated by number a man with strangely fluctuating shirt habits. And then one fateful day, a dreadful set of laundry is delivered to

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