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Title: Then I'll Come Back to You

Author: Larry Evans

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THEN I'LL COME BACK TO YOU

by

LARRY EVANS

Author of
Once to Every Man

Illustrated by Will Stevens

[Frontispiece: "I Ain't Never Seen Nothin'," He Stated Patiently. "I
Ain't Never Seen More'n Three Houses in a Clearin' Before. I Ain't
Never Been Outen the Timber--Till To-Day. But I Aim to See More
Now--Before I Get Done."]

New York
Grosset & Dunlap
Publishers
Copyright, 1915, by
The H. K. Fly Company.
Copyright, 1915, by
The Metropolitan Magazine Company.

To the Memory of

My Mother

CONTENTS.

Chapter

I. I DON'T MIND IF I DO!
II. THE LOGICAL CUSTODIAN
III. THREE QUARTERS AND SIX EIGHTHS
IV. I'LL TELL HER YOU'RE A BAPTIST
V. THEN I'LL COME BACK TO YOU
VI. MY MAN O'MARA
VII. HARRIGAN, THAT'S ME!
VIII. GREETINGS, SIR GALLAHAD!
IX. A MATTER OF ORNITHOLOGY
X. NOT A CHANCE IN THE WORLD
XI. I NEVER DID LIKE TO BE BEATEN
XII. THAT WOODS-RAT
XIII. THIS LITERARY THING
XIV. A GIRL LIKE HER
XV. LAW AND LUMBER
XVI. ACCIDENTS WILL HAPPEN
XVII. HONEY!
XVIII. I'M TELLING YOU GOOD-BYE
XIX. SOME LETTERS AND A REPLY
XX. BLUE FLANNEL AND CORDUROY
XXI. SETTING THE STAGE
XXII. IT HAPPENS IN BOOKS
XXIII. TO-MORROW--
XXIV. --AND TO-MORROW, AND TO-MORROW
XXV. IN REAL LIFE TOO

ILLUSTRATIONS

"I Ain't Never Seen Nothin'," He Stated Patiently. "I Ain't Never Seen
More'n Three Houses in a Clearin' Before. I Ain't Never Been Outen the
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