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Title: How Doth the Simple Spelling Bee

Author: Owen Wister

Release Date: December 19, 2007 [EBook #23923]

Language: English

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How doth the Simple Spelling Bee

BY

OWEN WISTER

AUTHOR OF "THE VIRGINIAN," "LADY BALTIMORE," ETC., ETC.

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY F. R. GRUGER

New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
LONDON: THE MACMILLAN CO., LTD. 1907
_All rights reserved_

COPYRIGHT, 1907,
BY THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY.

COPYRIGHT, 1907,
BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

Set up and electrotyped. Published February, 1907.

Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing & Co.--Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.

ILLUSTRATIONS

FACING PAGE

"Hup, hup, hup!" _Frontispiece_

Flung the cakes at my man Edward. 10

"Chickle is not liquid refreshment." 24

Professors Totts and Egghorn signing their respective works. 54

Masticator B. Fellows. 58

Professor Dudelsacker. 82

Jesse had mounted upon the table with the still faintly bellowing
Totts. 96

[Illustration: "Hup, hup, hup!"]

HOW DOTH THE SIMPLE SPELLING-BEE

_How doth the Simple Spelling-bee
Impruv each shining ower._

Of course, I know not how it may be with you; but with me the mail
brings daily a multitude of communications that I have not sought, and
do not want; nor do I refer to bills alone; and so, when there came one
day a printed card saying:--

Why Heifer?

I tossed it into my waste-paper basket, and remembered it no more. Some
days had