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From Cobb’s Bill of Fare, by Irvin S. Cobb, Illustrated by Peter Newell and James Preston; New York: George H. Doran Company, 1913; pp. 1-10.


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Black and white cartoon of 6 ghostly figures in party dress rising into a night sky with stars.




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Cobb’s Bill of Fare

By

Irvin S. Cobb

Author of
“The Escape of Mr. Trimm,” “Back Home,”
“Cobb’s Anatomy,”

Illustrated by

Peter Newell and James Preston








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New York
George H. Doran Company





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COPYRIGHT, 1911-1912,
BY THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
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COPYRIGHT, 1913,
BY GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY

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R. H. DAVIS

(NOT RICHARD HARDING

THE OTHER ONE)




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AS FOLLOWS
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    PAGE

    I.   VITTLES    13

  II.   MUSIC     47

 III.   ART      81

 IV.   SPORT   113

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ILLUSTRATIONS
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“I now greatly desire to eat some regular food.” 15

“Those who in the goodness of their hearts may
undertake a search for the sucking pig.”
35

“Where do you find the percentage of dyspeptics
running highest?”
41

“She tries to tear all its front teeth out with her
bare hands.”
51

“Ro-hocked in the cra-hadle of the da-heep,
I la-hay me down in pe-ace to sa-leep!”
57

“Shem undoubtedly sang it when the animals were
hungry.”
61

“And I enjoy it more than words can tell!” 67

“We looked in vain for the kind of pictures that
mother used to make and father used to buy.”
83

“The inscrutable smile of a saleslady would make
Mona Lisa seem a mere amateur.”
93

“A person who for reasons best known to the police
has not been locked up. ”
97

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“Collision between two heavenly bodies or
premature explosion of a custard pie.”
103

“Everything you catch is second-hand.” 119

“He could beat me climbing, but at panting
I had him licked to a whisper.”
125

“She was not much larger than a soapdish.” 137

“Think of being laid face downward firmly across
a sinewy knee and beaten forty-love with one of
those hard catgut rackets!”
143


Next: Vittles




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