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Title: The Autobiography of Methuselah

Author: John Kendrick Bangs

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THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF METHUSELAH

Edited by

JOHN KENDRICK BANGS

Illustrated in Color by F. G. Cooper

[Illustration: Methuselah's stationery]

New York
B. W. Dodge & Company
1909
Copyright, 1908, by
B. W. Dodge & Company

CONTENTS

FOREWORD

CHAPTER

I I AM BORN AND NAMED

II EARLY INFLUENCES

III SOME REMINISCENCES OF ADAM

IV GRANDMOTHER EVE

V SOME NOTES ON CAIN AND ABEL

VI HE CONFESSES TO BEING A POET

VII THE INTERNATIONAL MARINE AND ZOO FLOTATION COMPANY

VIII ON THE EXTINCTION OF THE MASTODON

IX AS TO WOMEN

FOREWORD

Having recently passed into what my great-grandson Shem calls my
Anecdotage, it has occurred to me that perhaps some of the
recollections of a more or less extended existence upon this
globular[1] mass of dust and water that we are pleased to call the
earth, may prove of interest to posterity, and I have accordingly, at
the earnest solicitation of my grandson, Noah, and his sons