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Title: The Life of the Party

Author: Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb

Illustrator: James M. Preston

Release Date: November 9, 2008 [EBook #27212]

Language: English

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_The Life of the Party_

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BY IRVIN S. COBB

FICTION

THE LIFE OF THE PARTY
THOSE TIMES AND THESE
LOCAL COLOR
OLD JUDGE PRIEST
FIBBLE, D. D.
BACK HOME
THE THUNDERS OF SILENCE
THE ESCAPE OF MR. TRIMM

WIT AND HUMOR

EATING IN TWO OR THREE LANGUAGES
"SPEAKING OF OPERATIONS----"
EUROPE REVISED
ROUGHING IT DE LUXE
COBB'S BILL OF FARE
COBB'S ANATOMY

MISCELLANY

THE GLORY OF THE COMING
PATHS OF GLORY
"SPEAKING OF PRUSSIANS----"

GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
NEW YORK

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[Illustration: "ARE YOU PAYIN' AN ELECTION BET THREE WEEKS AFTER THE
ELECTION'S OVER? OR IS IT THAT YOU'RE JEST A PLAIN BEDADDLED IJIET?"]

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_The Life of the Party

By

Irvin S. Cobb

Author of "Back Home," "Old Judge Priest," etc., etc.

Illustrated By James M. Preston_

[Illustration: Publisher's logo]

_New York George H. Doran Company_

_Copyright, 1919,
By George H. Doran Company

Copyright, 1919, by the Curtis Publishing Company
Printed in the United States of America_

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TO

MISTRESS MAY WILSON PRESTON

A LADY OF GREAT DRAWING QUALITIES

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_ILLUSTRATIONS_

"Are you payin' an election bet three weeks after the
election's over? Or is it that you're jest a plain
bedaddled ijiet?" _Frontispiece_

PAGE
"That's nice," spake the fearsome stranger. "Now
stay jest the way you are and don't make no
peep or I'll have to