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Title: People You Know

Author: George Ade

Release Date: September 27, 2004 [EBook #13543]
Last updated: January 3, 2009

Language: English

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PEOPLE YOU KNOW

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PEOPLE YOU KNOW

_BY_ GEORGE ADE

_ILLUSTRATED BY JOHN T. MCCUTCHEON AND OTHERS_

MCMIV

_PREFACE_

This little book is not supposed to contain any new information. It is
made up of plain observations concerning people who live just around
the corner. If the reader will bear in mind that _only_ the people who
live around the corner are discussed in this volume, there will be
no chance for painful misunderstandings. I have no desire to rub the
wrong way anyone who proves his true friendship by purchasing a copy
of this Work. It may be advisable to explain that these Fables are
written in the colloquial American language. The vocabulary employed
is one that has become familiar to the ear, although it is seldom seen
on the printed page. In other words, this volume contains a shameless
amount of slang. If any part of it is unintelligible to the reader, he
should be glad that he has escaped what seems to be an epidemic.

THE AUTHOR.

CONTENTS

The Periodical Souse, the Never-Again Feeling and the Ride On the
Sprinkling Cart, 13

The Kind of Music That Is Too Good for Household Use, 23

The One or Two Points of Difference Between Learning and Learning How,
26

The Night-Watch and the Would-Be Something Awful, 37

The Attenuated Attorney Who Rang In the Associate Counsel, 46

What Father Bumped Into at the Culture Factory, 54

The Search for the Right House and How Mrs. Jump Had Her Annual
Attack, 65

The Batch of Letters, or One Day With a Busy Man, 72

The Sickly Dream and How It Was Doctored Up, 81

The Two Old Pals and the Call for Help, 90

The Regular Kind of a Place and the Usual Way It Turned Out, 99

The Man Who Had a True Friend to Steer Him Along, 107