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_Being Divers Episodes in the Life of a Certain Young Curate. Subdivided, for Convenience, into Three Parts_
FIBBLE, D.D. LOCAL COLOR OLD JUDGE PRIEST BACK HOME THE ESCAPE OF MR. TRIMM
"SPEAKING OF OPERATIONS----?" EUROPE REVISED ROUGHING IT DE LUXE COBB'S BILL OF FARE COBB'S ANATOMY
[Illustration: MOMENTARILY THE ARTICLES THAT FILLED MY ARMS AND HUNG ON MY SHOULDERS AND BACK GREW MORE CUMBERSOME AND BURDENSOME]
_Author of "Back Home," "Paths of Glory," etc._
COPYRIGHT, 1916, BY GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA COPYRIGHT, 1915 AND 1916, BY THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
PAGE PART ONE: THE YOUNG NUTS OF AMERICA _Being a Card to the Public from the Pen of the Rev. Roscoe Titmarsh Fibble, D. D._ 13
PART TWO: ELSEWHERE IN FRANCE _Being an Open Letter Addressed by Dr. Fibble to One Sitting in a High Place_ 109
PART THREE: LOVER'S LEAP _Being a Series of Extracts Culled from the Diary of Dr. Fibble_ 203
Momentarily the articles that filled my arms and hung on my shoulders and back grew more cumbersome and burdensome Frontispiece
PAGE May I ask whether you are going to a fancy dress party somewhere? 42
Until he loomed almost above my kneeling form 94
From its depths I extracted the parting gifts bestowed upon me by my Great-Aunt Paulina 176
"Say coo-coo clearly and distinctly and keep on saying it until I call out 'Enough'" 234
_Being a Card to the Public from the Pen of the Rev. Roscoe Titmarsh Fibble, D.D._
IT is with a feeling of the utmost reluctance, amounting--if I may use so strong a word--to distress, that I take my pen in hand to indite the exceedingly painful account which follows; yet I feel I owe it not only to myself and the parishioners of St. Barnabas', but to the community at large, to explain in amplified detail why I have withdrawn suddenly, automatically as it were, from the organisation of youthful forest rangers of which I was, during its brief existence, the actuating spirit, and simultaneously have resigned my charge to seek a field of congenial endeavour elsewhere.