The Register

The Register is a humorous play by William Dean Howells. Howells was an American realist novelist, literary critic, and playwright. Excerpt: "«Well, take off your coat, and pull up to the register, and warm your poor feet.» He puts his hand out over the register. «Confound p. 121it! somebody's got the register open in the next room! You see, one pipe comes up from the furnace and branches into a V just under the floor, and professes to heat both rooms. But it don't. There was a fellow in there last winter who used to get all my heat. Used to go out and leave his register open, and I'd come in here just before... Next