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Title: Ade's Fables
Author: George Ade
Illustrator: John T. McCutcheon
Release Date: February 2, 2007 [EBook #20510]
Language: English
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ADE'S FABLES
BY
GEORGE ADE
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
_The College Widow, In Pastures New, Knocking the Neighbors, Fables
in Slang_
_Illustrated by John T. McCutcheon_
GARDEN CITY NEW YORK
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
1914
_Copyright, 1912, 1913, by_
COSMOPOLITAN MAGAZINE
_Copyright, 1914, by_
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & CO.
_All rights reserved, including that of translation into foreign
languages, including the Scandinavian_
CONTENTS
PAGE
The New Fable of the Private Agitator and What He Cooked Up 3
The New Fable of the Speedy Sprite 23
The New Fable of the Intermittent Fusser 43
The New Fable of the Search for Climate 62
The New Fable of the Father Who Jumped In 83
The New Fable of the Uplifter and His Dandy Little Opus 100
The New Fable of the Wandering Boy and the Wayward Parent 119
The New Fable of What Transpires After the Wind-up 137
The Dream That Came Out with Much to Boot 155
The New Fable of the Toilsome Ascent and the Shining Table-Land 171
The New Fable of the Aerial Performer, the Buzzing Blondine,
and the Daughter of Mr. Jackson 193
The New Fable of Susan and the Daughter and the Granddaughter,
and then Something Really Grand 212
The New Fable of the Scoffer Who Fell Hard and the Woman
Sitting By 237
The New Fable of the Lone
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