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Title: Taboo
A Legend Retold from the Dirghic of Saevius Nicanor, with
Prolegomena, Notes, and a Preliminary Memoir

Author: James Branch Cabell

Release Date: November 22, 2005 [EBook #17134]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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_TABOO_

_A Legend Retold from the Dirghic of Saevius
Nicanor, with Prolegomena, Notes,
and a Preliminary Memoir_

By

James Branch Cabell

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_At melius fuerat non scribere, namque tacere
Tutum semper erit._

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NEW YORK

ROBERT M. McBRIDE & COMPANY

1921

_This edition is limited to nine hundred and
twenty numbered copies, of which one hundred
copies have been signed by the author._

_Copy Number __893__

Copyright, 1921, by

JAMES BRANCH CABELL

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Revised and reprinted, by permission of the
Editors, from THE LITERARY REVIEW

CONTENTS.

THE DEDICATION

MEMOIR OF SAEVIUS NICANOR

PROLEGOMENA

THE LEGEND:
_How Horvendile Met Fate and Custom_
_How the Garbage-Man Came with Forks_
_How Thereupon Ensued a Legal Debate_
_How There Was Babbling in Philistia_
_How It Appeared to the Man in the Street_

COLOPHON

A POSTSCRIPT

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THE DEDICATION

_Laudataque virtus crescit_

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"Buttons, a farthing a pair!
Come, who could buy them of me?
They're round and sound and pretty,
And fit f