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Number Fifty-Six

By: Stephen Leacock
Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
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Stephen P. H. Butler Leacock (1869 - 1944) was a Canadian teacher, political scientist, writer, and humourist.

'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 which are delivered to him for washing. Of all his clients he is most fascinated by number 56...a man with strangely fluctuating shirt habits. And then one fateful day, a dreadful set of laundry is delivered to him....

Public Domain (P)2017 Red Door Audiobooks
Classics Witty China
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