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THE H.M. CALDWELL COMPANY for "Yes" and "Disappointment," from _In
Bohemia_, by John Boyle O'Reilly.

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Butler, and "A Ballade of the 'How to' Books," by John James Davies,
from _The American Illustrated Magazine_.

THE CROWELL PUBLISHING COMPANY for "Familiar Authors at Work," by Hayden
Carruth, from _The Woman's Home Companion_.

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Maurice Smiley, and "Cheer for the Consumer," by Nixon Waterman, from
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DICK & FITZGERALD for "The Thompson Street Poker Club," from _The
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Natural History," by Charles Farrar Browne ("Artemus Ward"); "The
Musketeer," from _Farmer's Alminax_, and "Laffing," from _Josh Billings:
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Baxter's Letters_, by William J. Kountz, Jr.

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Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum_, by Wallace Irwin.

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Tompkins; "The Weddin'," by Jennie Betts Hartswick, and "A Double-Dyed
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THE FEDERAL BOOK COMPANY for "Budge and Toddie," from _Helen's Babies_,
by John Habberton.

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Henry Ward Beecher