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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:
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