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The Project Gutenberg EBook of In the Sweet Dry and Dry, by Christopher Morley and Bart Haley This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: In the Sweet Dry and Dry Author: Christopher Morley Bart Haley Posting Date: July 9, 2009 [EBook #4249] Release Date: July, 2003 First Posted: December 19, 2001 Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK IN THE SWEET DRY AND DRY *** Produced by Robert Rowe, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. HTML version by Al Haines IN THE SWEET DRY AND DRY BY CHRISTOPHER MORLEY AND BART HALEY ILLUSTRATED BY GLUYAS WILLIAMS DEDICATED TO G. K. CHESTERTON MOST DELIGHTFUL OF MODERN DECANTERBURY PILGRIMS FOREWORD As far as this book is concerned, the public may Take It, or the public may Let It Alone. But the authors feel it their duty to say that no deductions as to their own private habits are to be made from the story here offered. With its composition they have beguiled the moments of the valley of the shadow. Acknowledgement should be made to the Evening Public Ledger of Philadelphia for permission to reprint the ditty included in Chapter VI. The public will forgive this being only a brief preface, for at the moment of writing the time is short. Wishing you a Merry Abstinence, and looking forward to meeting you some day in Europe, CHRISTOPHER MORLEY, BART HALEY. Philadelphia, Ten minutes before Midnight, June 30, 1919. TABLE OF CONTENTS I. MYSTERY OF THE UNEXPECTED JULEP II. THE HOUSE ON CARAWAY STREET III. INCIDENT OF THE GOOSEBERRY BOMBS IV. THE GREAT WAR BEGINS V. THE TREACHERY OF MISS CHUFF VI. DEPARTED SPIRITS VII. THE DECANTERBURY PILGRIMS VIII. WITH BENEFIT OF CLERGY IX. THE ELECTION X. E PLURIBUS UNUM! XI. IT'S A LONG WORM THAT HAS NO TURNING IN THE SWEET DRY AND DRY CHAPTER I MYSTERY OF THE UNEXPECTED JULEP Dunraven Bleak, the managing editor of The Evening Balloon, sat at his desk in the center of the local-room, under a furious cone of electric light. It was six o'clock of a warm summer afternoon: he was filling his pipe and turning over th
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