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Title: Marge Askinforit

Author: Barry Pain

Release Date: July 11, 2008 [EBook #26024]

Language: English

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MARGE ASKINFORIT

BY BARRY PAIN

NEW YORK

DUFFIELD AND COMPANY

1921

CONTENTS

AUTHOR'S NOTE 7

I. THE CATASTROPHIC FAMILY 9

II. EBULLIENT YOUTH 18

III. GLADSTONE--LLOYD GEORGE--INMEMORISON--DR.
BENGER HORLICK 26

IV. THE SOLES 40

V. MISFIRES 50

VI. TESTIMONIALS--ROYAL APPRECIATION 64

VII. SELF-ESTIMATE 78
LATE EXTRA 83

"And every week you opened your hoard
Of truthful and tasteful tales--
How you sat on the knees of the Laureate Lord,
How you danced with the Prince of Wales--
And we knew that the Sunday Times had scored
In Literature and Sales."

_To Margot in Heaven._

BY CLARENCE G. HENNESSY (circa 1985).

AUTHOR'S NOTE

This book was suggested by the reading of some extracts from the
autobiography of a brilliant lady who had much to tell us about a number
of interesting people. There was a quality in that autobiography which
seemed to demand parody, and no doubt the autobiographer who cannot wait
for posterity and perspective will pardon a little contemporary
distortion.

In adding my humble wreath to the flatteries--in their sincerest
form--which she has already received, I should like to point out that a
parody of an autobiography should not be a caricature of the people
biographed--some of whom must already have suffered enough. I have
lowered the social key of