PARNASSUS ON WHEELS
By CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
Author of "The Haunted Bookshop,"
"Thunder on the Left," etc.
Andrew McGill and his sister, Helen, were
wonderfully happy on their farm in the country
until Andrew wrote a book and suddenly found
himself famous as The Sage of Redfield and the
author of Happiness and Hayseed. Perhaps it
was because the publishers once referred to
her as a "Rural Xantippe," or perhaps it was
the madness of the whole proposition or just a
desire to have an adventure of her own that
impelled Helen McGill to buy "Parnassus on
Wheels," the traveling book van, from the
little red-bearded "Professor" who drove into
the yard one day. At any rate, she suddenly
abandoned the baking of bread and drove off
with the "Professor" with no attempt at an
explanation to her brother. This whimsical,
fantastic little story is the record of their
adventures, and of how the "Professor" brought
the splendor of an ideal into her hum-drum
life.
