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Title: Cobb's Bill-of-Fare
Author: Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb
Illustrator: Peter Newell and James Preston
Release Date: February 13, 2008 [EBook #24595]
Language: English
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_Cobb's Bill-of-Fare_
_By_
_Irvin S. Cobb_
_Author of_
"_The Escape of Mr. Trimm_," "_Back Home_,"
"_Cobb's Anatomy_," _etc._
_Illustrated by_
_Peter Newell and James Preston_
[Illustration]
_New York_
_George H. Doran Company_
COPYRIGHT, 1911 1912,
BY THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1913,
BY GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
TO
R. H. DAVIS
(NOT RICHARD HARDING--
THE OTHER ONE)
_AS FOLLOWS_
PAGE
I. VITTLES 13
II. MUSIC 47
III. ART 81
IV. SPORT 113
_ILLUSTRATIONS_
PAGE
"I now greatly desire to eat some regular food." 15
"Those who in the goodness of their hearts may
undertake a search for the sucking pig." 35
"Where do you find the percentage of dyspeptics
running highest?" 41
"She tries to tear all its front teeth out with her
bare hands." 51
"Ro-hocked in the cra-hadle of the da-heep,
I la-hay me down in pe-heace to sa-leep!" 57
"Shem undoubtedly sang it when the animals were
hungry." 61
"And I enjoy it more than words can tell!" 67
"We looked in vain for the kind of pictures that
mother used to make and father used to buy." 83
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