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Title: One Third Off

Author: Irvin S. Cobb

Illustrator: Tony Sarg

Release Date: July 4, 2005 [EBook #16197]

Language: English

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_One Third Off_

_By Irvin S. Cobb_

_Fiction_

FROM PLACE TO PLACE
THOSE TIMES AND THESE
LOCAL COLOR
OLD JUDGE PRIEST
BACK HOME
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_

* * * * *

[Illustration: I WEIGHED MYSELF AND IN THE BOX SCORE CREDITED MYSELF WITH
A PROFOUND SHOCK. _Frontispiece_]

_One Third Off_

_By_

_Irvin S. Cobb_

_Author of_
_"Old Judge Priest," "Speaking_
_of Operations--" Etc._

_Illustrated by Tony Sarg_

_New York_

_George H. Doran Company_

_Copyright, 1921,_

_By George H. Doran Company_

_Copyright, 1921,_

_By The Curtis Publishing Company_

_Printed in the United States of America_

_One Third Off_

TO
HARRY M. STEVENS, ESQUIRE
WHO IN TIMES GONE BY HELPED ME
PUT THAT ONE THIRD ON

_CONTENTS_

CHAPTER ONE: PAGE
_Extra! Extra! All About the Great Reduction_ 15

CHAPTER TWO:
_Those Romping Elfin Twenties_ 25

CHAPTER THREE:
_Regarding Liver-Eating Watkins and Others_ 31

CHAPTER FOUR:
_I Become the Panting Champion_ 41

CHAPTER FIVE:
_On Acquiring Some Snappy Pores_ 55

CHAPTER SIX:
_More Anon_ 65

CHAPTER SEVEN: