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OTHER BOOKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR
Fiction
Parnassus on Wheels The Haunted Bookshop Kathleen Tales from a Rolltop Desk Where the Blue Begins
Essays
Shandygaff Mince Pie Pipefuls Plum Pudding Travels in Philadelphia
Poetry
Songs for a Little House The Rocking Horse Hide and Seek Chimneysmoke Translations from the Chinese
THE POWDER OF SYMPATHY
BY CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
Strange, when you come to think of it, that of all the countless folk who have lived before our time on this planet not one is known in history or in legend as having died of laughter.
—Max Beerbohm
ILLUSTRATED BY WALTER JACK DUNCAN
GARDEN CITY NEW YORK DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY 1923
COPYRIGHT, 1923, BY DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF TRANSLATION INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES, INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN
COPYRIGHT, 1921, 1922, BY THE NEW YORK EVENING POST, INC. COPYRIGHT, 1921, BY THE OUTLOOK COMPANY
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES AT THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS, GARDEN CITY, N. Y.
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