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Title: A Likely Story

Author: William Dean Howells

Release Date: March 11, 2009 [EBook #28305]

Language: English

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A

LIKELY STORY

BY
W. D. HOWELLS.

HARPER'S
BLACK & WHITE
SERIES

A LIKELY STORY

[Illustration: "THE MOST EXCITING PART."]

A LIKELY STORY

Farce

BY

W. D. HOWELLS

ILLUSTRATED

[Illustration]

NEW YORK
HARPER AND BROTHERS
1894

Harper's "Black and White" Series.

Illustrated. 32mo, Cloth, 50 cents each.

_LATEST ISSUES:_

FIVE O'CLOCK TEA. Farce. By W. D. Howells.

THE MOUSE-TRAP. Farce. By W. D. Howells.

A LIKELY STORY. Farce. By W. D. Howells.

THIS PICTURE AND THAT. A Comedy. By Brander Matthews.

TRAVELS IN AMERICA 100 YEARS AGO. By Thomas Twining.

MY YEAR IN A LOG CABIN. By William Dean Howells.

EVENING DRESS. A Farce. By William Dean Howells.

THE WORK OF WASHINGTON IRVING. By Charles Dudley Warner.

EDWIN BOOTH. By Laurence Hutton.

PHILLIPS BROOKS. By Rev. Arthur Brooks, D.D.

THE DECISION OF THE COURT. A Comedy. By Brander Matthews.

GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS. By John White Chadwick.

THE UNEXPECTED GUESTS. A Farce. By William Dean Howells.

SLAVERY AND THE SLAVE TRADE IN AFRICA. By Henry M. Stanley.

THE RIVALS. By Francois Coppee.

WHITTIER: NOTES OF HIS LIFE AND OF HIS FRIENDSHIPS. By Annie
Fields.

THE JAPANESE BRIDE. By Naomi Tamura.

GILES COREY, YEOMAN. By Mary E. Wilkins.

COFFEE AND REPARTEE. By John Kendrick Bangs.

PUBLISHED BY HARPER & BROTHERS, NEW YORK.

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Copyright, 1894, by HARPER & BROTHERS.

Copyright, 1885, by HARPER & BR