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Title: Penguin Persons & Peppermints
Author: Walter Prichard Eaton
Release Date: August 23, 2008 [EBook #26405]
Language: English
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PENGUIN PERSONS & PEPPERMINTS
BY WALTER PRICHARD EATON
[Illustration]
_Essay Index Reprint Series_
BOOKS FOR LIBRARIES PRESS
FREEPORT, NEW YORK
First Published 1922
Reprinted 1969
STANDARD BOOK NUMBER:
8369-1288-8
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOG CARD NUMBER:
72-93335
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
_To
My Little Sister
who was born just in time
to know the old, quiet ways of life
in their gentle decline--to
know and to love
them_
[Illustration]
_Contents_
_Page_
Author's Foreword ix
Penguin Persons 1
Spring Comes to Thumping Dick 18
The Passing of the Stage Sundial 33
On Singing Songs with One Finger 41
The Immorality of Shop-windows 46
A Forgotten American Poet 51
New Poetry and the Lingering Line 65
The Lies We Learn in Our Youth 77
The Bad Manners of Polite Peop
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