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Title: From the Car Behind

Author: Eleanor M. Ingram

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Language: English

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FROM THE CAR BEHIND

Second Edition

[Illustration: THE PEOPLE BURST OUT OVER THE COURSE AND OVERWHELMED THE
VICTORS _Page 293_]

FROM THE CAR BEHIND

by

ELEANOR M. INGRAM

Author of
"The Flying Mercury," "The Game or the Candle," Etc.

With Illustrations in Color by James Montgomery Flagg

Philadelphia & London
J. B. Lippincott Company
1912

Copyright, 1911, by J. B. Lippincott Company
Copyright, 1912, by J. B. Lippincott Company

Published, February, 1912
Published, February 15, 1912
Second Printing February 20, 1912

Printed by J. B. Lippincott Company
At the Washington Square Press
Philadelphia, U.S.A.

To My Dear
and
Gracious Mother

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I. The Kid Amateur 11
II. Corrie and his Other Fellow