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Title: Pipefuls

Author: Christopher Morley

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PIPEFULS

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_Other Books by the Author_

PARNASSUS ON WHEELS

THE HAUNTED BOOKSHOP

SHANDYGAFF

MINCE PIE

KATHLEEN

SONGS FOR A LITTLE HOUSE

THE ROCKING HORSE

HIDE AND SEEK

TRAVELS IN PHILADELPHIA

* * * * *

PIPEFULS

by

CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

[Illustration]

Illustrated by Walter Jack Duncan

Garden City New York
Doubleday, Page & Company
1920

Copyright, 1920, by
Doubleday, Page & Company
All Rights Reserved, Including That of Translation
into Foreign Languages, Including the Scandinavian

THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED
TO
THREE MEN

HULBERT FOOTNER
EUGENE SAXTON
WILLIAM ROSE BENET

BECAUSE, IF I MENTIONED ONLY ONE
OF THEM, I WOULD HAVE TO
WRITE BOOKS
TO INSCRIBE TO THE OTHER TWO

PREFACE

Sir Thomas Browne said that Eve was "edified out of the rib of
Adam." This little book was edified (for the most part) out of
the ribs of two friendly newspapers, The New York _Evening Post_
and The Philadelphia _Evening Public Ledger_. To them, and to
_The Bookman_, _Everybody's_, and _The Publishers' Weekly_, I am
grateful for permission to reprint.

Tristram Shandy said, "When a man is hemm'd in by two indecorums,
and must commit one of 'em let him chuse which he will, the world
will blame him." Now it is one indecorum to let this collection
of small sketches go out (as t