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Title: Sundry Accounts

Author: Irvin S. Cobb

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SUNDRY ACCOUNTS

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BY IRVIN S. COBB

FICTION

SUNDRY ACCOUNTS
J. POINDEXTER, COLORED
BACK HOME
FROM PLACE TO PLACE
OLD JUDGE PRIEST
LOCAL COLOR
THOSE TIMES AND THESE
THE ESCAPE OF MR. TRIMM

WIT AND HUMOR

ONE THIRD OFF
A PLEA FOR OLD CAP COLLIER
THE ABANDONED FARMERS
THE LIFE OF THE PARTY
EATING IN TWO OR THREE LANGUAGES
"OH, WELL, YOU KNOW HOW WOMEN ARE!"
FIBBLE D. D.
"SPEAKING OF OPERATIONS----"
EUROPE REVISED
ROUGHING IT DE LUXE
COBB'S BILL OF FARE
COBB'S ANATOMY

MISCELLANY

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

NEW YORK
GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY

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SUNDRY ACCOUNTS

by

IRVIN S. COBB

Author of "Back Home," "Speaking of Operations--,"
"Old Judge Priest," Etc.

[Illustration: Publisher's logo]

New York
George H. Doran Company

Copyright, 1922,
by George H. Doran Company

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Printed in the United States of America

TO JOHN WILSON TOWNSEND, ESQUIRE

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I DARKNESS 11

II THE CATER-CORNERED SEX 57

III A SHORT NATURAL HISTORY 104

IV IT COULD HAPPEN AGAIN TO-MORROW 157

V THE RAVELIN' WOLF 212

VI "WORTH 10,000" 246

VII MR. LOBEL'S APOPLEXY 300

VIII ALAS, THE POOR WHIFFLETIT! 341

IX PLENTIFUL VALLEY 392

X A TALE OF WET DAYS 424

SUNDRY ACCOUNTS

CHAPTER I

DARKNESS

There was a house in this town where always b