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Title: Alex the Great

Author: H. C. Witwer

Illustrator: Arthur William Brown

Release Date: August 22, 2009 [EBook #29763]

Language: English

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Produced by Al Haines

[Frontispiece: Along he comes with some dame he must have kidnapped
from the Follies when Ziegfeld was busy countin' up the receipts or
somethin'.]

ALEX THE GREAT

BY

H. C. WITWER

Author of "From Baseball to Boches,"
"A Smile a Minute," etc.

ILLUSTRATED BY

ARTHUR WILLIAM BROWN

BOSTON

SMALL, MAYNARD & COMPANY

PUBLISHERS

Copyright, 1919,

BY SMALL, MAYNARD & COMPANY

(INCORPORATED)

DEDICATED TO

RALPH T. HALE

--EDITOR OF SMALL, MAYNARD AND COMPANY--

MY PUBLISHER--BUT STILL MY FRIEND

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I INTRODUCING ALEX THE GREAT
II THE SELF-COMMENCER
III PLAY YOUR ACE!
IV DON'T GIVE UP THE TIP!
V YOU CAN DO IT!
VI THE LITTLE THINGS DON'T COUNT
VII ART IS WRONG

ILLUSTRATIONS

Along he comes with some dame he must have kidnapped from the
Follies when Ziegfeld was busy countin' up the receipts or
somethin'. . . . . . . _Frontispiece_

I struck a match and he tells me they is 9,765,543 of them used in New
York every fiscal year.

"She's going to marry me, she's going to marry me!"

She's knittin' a sweater for me that will prob'ly make me off her for
life.

"How perfectly sweet! If you two only knew what a pretty picture you
make!"

"Heavens!" says the vampire. "You must have worked all your life to
acquire ignorance, for no one was ever born as stupid as you!"

When the dames cast languishing glances at his handsome form, he glared
at them like an infuriated turtle.

ALEX THE GREAT

CHAPTER I

INTRODUCING ALEX THE GREAT

Girls, listen--if friend hubby comes home to-night and while hurlin'
the cat off his favorite chair, remarks that he's got a scheme to make
gold out of mud or pennant winners out of the St. Looey Cardinals,
don't threaten to leave him flat and accuse him