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Title: Penguin Persons & Peppermints

Author: Walter Prichard Eaton

Release Date: August 23, 2008 [EBook #26405]

Language: English

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PENGUIN PERSONS & PEPPERMINTS

BY WALTER PRICHARD EATON

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_Essay Index Reprint Series_

BOOKS FOR LIBRARIES PRESS
FREEPORT, NEW YORK

First Published 1922
Reprinted 1969

STANDARD BOOK NUMBER:
8369-1288-8

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOG CARD NUMBER:
72-93335

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

_To
My Little Sister
who was born just in time
to know the old, quiet ways of life
in their gentle decline--to
know and to love
them_

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_Contents_

_Page_
Author's Foreword ix
Penguin Persons 1
Spring Comes to Thumping Dick 18
The Passing of the Stage Sundial 33
On Singing Songs with One Finger 41
The Immorality of Shop-windows 46
A Forgotten American Poet 51
New Poetry and the Lingering Line 65
The Lies We Learn in Our Youth 77
The Bad Manners of Polite Peop