COMPILED BY ARTHUR GRAY
Reading edition
Compiler of Over the Black Coffee
ILLUSTRATED BY GEORGE W. HOOD
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NEW YORK THE BAKER & TAYLOR COMPANY 33-37 EAST 17TH ST., UNION SQ. NORTH
COPYRIGHT, 1903, BY THE BAKER & TAYLOR COMPANY
Published, October, 1903 The Crow Press, N.H.
Thou soft, thou sober, sage, and venerable liquid! Thou innocent pretence for bringing the wicked of both sexes together in the morning! Thou female tongue-running, smile-soothing, heart-opening, wink-tipping cordial to whose glorious insipidity I owe the happiest moments of my life.
—COLLEY CIBBER.