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Title: Roughing it De Luxe

Author: Irvin S. Cobb

Illustrator: John T. McCutcheon

Release Date: October 7, 2006 [EBook #19479]

Language: English

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_Roughing It De Luxe_
_By_
_Irvin S. Cobb_

[Illustration: BY COMMON CONSENT WE HAD NAMED THEM CLARENCE AND
CLARICE]

_Roughing It De Luxe_
_By_
_Irvin S. Cobb_

_Author of "Back Home,"_
_"The Escape of Mr. Trimm," "Cobb's Anatomy,"_
_"Cobb's Bill of Fare," etc._

_Illustrated by John T. McCutcheon_

[Illustration]

_New York_
_George H. Doran Company_

COPYRIGHT, 1913,
BY THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY

COPYRIGHT, 1914,
BY GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY

TO GEORGE H. DORAN, ESQ.
MY FRIEND AND STILL MY PUBLISHER;
MY PUBLISHER AND STILL
MY FRIEND

_THE TIME TABLE_

PAGE
A PILGRIM CANONIZED 15
RABID AND HIS FRIENDS 55
HOW DO YOU LIKE THE CLIMATE? 97
IN THE HAUNT OF THE NATIVE SON 135
LOOKING FOR LO 175

ILLUSTRATIONS

PAGE
By common consent we had named them Clarence and Clarice Frontispiece
Evidently he believed the conspiracy against him was widespread 21
There was not a turkey trotter in the bunch 35
He'd garner in some fellows that wasn't sheep-herders 61
Because a man has a soul is no reason he shouldn't have an appetite 73
He was a regular moving picture cowboy and gave general satisfaction 87
The boy who sells you a paper and the youth who blackens your shoes
both show solicitude 101
Out from under a rock somewhere will crawl a real estate agent 115
He felt that he was properly dressed for the time, the place and the
occasion