Little Miss Grouch A Narrative Based on the Log of Alexander Forsyth Smith's Maiden Transatlantic Voyage by Adams, Samuel Hopkins, 1871-1958; Crosby, Raymond Moreau, 1876-1945 [Illustrator]
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From the book jacket of "Sunrise to Sunset", (c) 1950 At seventy-nine Samuel Hopkins Adams attributes his longevity, vigor and vim to neither smoking nor drinking, except when he feels like it. This is typical of the intelligent attitude toward the vagaries of life that has maintained him through the years in which he has authored more than forty books, written countless magazine articles and, as a crusading reporter, almost single-handedly accounted for the passage of the Federal Food and Drug laws which pave protected millions of his fellow citizens.
Mr. Adams' amazing knowledge of the history of upper New York State is the result of his lifelong interest in the region in which he was born. His home is Wide Waters, on the shore of Owasco, "loveliest of the Finger Lakes." From Wide Waters he still makes forways into the surrounding countryside, attending antique-auction sales "for the purpose of sneering at the prevalent junk," which he says he wouldn't put in his open hearth Franklin stove for fear of insulting it.
A graduate of Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, class of 1891, Mr. Adams introduced football to the campus, played tackle on its first team, and won the Intercollegiate Tennis Championship. For these contributions to scholarship, his college conferred on him the degree of L.H.D. in 1926.
Adams also wrote under the pseudonym Warner Fabian.
I would have loved to have rated this higher, but it just didn't have enough plot and it dragged even though it was short. I loved its quiet humor and the very civilized courtship of the two protagonists.
Pleasant while reading but not necessarily memorable. A young American woman is running away from her family because she refuses to marry the man her father has picked out. She boards a ship for England and meets up with a young man after she accidentally stomps on his foot. She looks awful because she's been crying and upset. He helps her avoid pursuit and be able to stay on the ship unnoticed. Later she hears him telling a friend about her, describing her in very unflattering language and calling her "Little Miss Grouch." She's actually very pretty when she's not crying, as becomes obvious the next morning, when the young man falls in love with her (he's always called The Tyro, for some reason, although his name is actually Alexander). Interfering acquaintances inform her father that this young man is hanging around the girl, and the captain is given authority to lock her in her room if The Tyro says one more word to her. What follows is the story of how he tries to avoid her, and how she plays cat-and-mouse with him, and they generally both try to pretend that they don't care too much about each other. (Which manifestly isn't true.)
Silly shipboard romance involving some kind of bet/dare/misunderstanding I've already forgotten. She is a notorious socialite who had run away. Her rich and powerful father knows she got on the boat, and the ship's crew is watching after her for him. For some reason, a particular young man can't or won't speak to her, I think because the crew has warned him not to. The girl becomes increasingly obsessed with him because he he keeps snubbing her. There must have been some other twist or lesson learned...oh well.
Interestingly, this reminded me of "It happened One Night," and I know this author wrote the story on which that movie is based. But this isn't it, it's called "Night Bus" or something like that. It's almost like this is a sketch for "Night Bus," though, it's so similar.