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Title: The Idiot

Author: John Kendrick Bangs

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THE IDIOT

by

JOHN KENDRICK BANGS

Author of "Coffee and Repartee" "The Water Ghost, and Others" "Three
Weeks in Politics" Etc.

Illustrated

New York
Harper & Brothers Publishers
1895
Copyright, 1895, by Harper & Brothers.
All rights reserved.

TO WILLIAM K. OTIS

ILLUSTRATIONS

"CERTAINLY. I ASKED FOR ANOTHER CUP"

"THE NUISANCE OF HAVING TO PAY"

"SHE COULD NOT POSSIBLY GET ABOARD AGAIN"

"DEMANDS TICKETS FOR TWO"

"THEY ARE GIVEN TO REHEARSING AT ALL HOURS"

"'HA! HA! I HAVE HIM NOW!'"

"HAS YOUR FRIEND COMPLETED HIS ARTICLE ON OLD JOKES?"

THEY DEPARTED

"YOU FISH ALL DAY, AND HAVE NO LUCK"

HE COULD BE HEARD THROWING THINGS ABOUT

"HE WAS NOT MURDERED"

"SUPERINTENDENT SMITHERS HAS NOT ABSCONDED"

THE INSPIRED BOARDER PAID HIS BILL

"I KNOW YOU CAN'T, BECAUSE IT ISN'T THERE"

"YOU CAN MAKE YOURSELF HEARD IN SAN FRANCISCO"

THE PROPHETOGRAPH

"I GRASPED IT IN MY TWO HANDS"

"PIANO-PLAYING ISN'T ALWAYS MUSIC"

"THE MOON ITSELF WILL BE USED"

"DECLINES TO BE RIDDEN"

"THE BIBLIOMANIAC WOULD BE RAISING BULBS"

"DIDN'T KNOW ENOUGH TO CHOOSE HIS OWN FACE"

"JANITORS HAVE TO BE SEEN TO"

"MY ELOQUENCE FLOATED UP THE AIR-SHAFT"

THE IDIOT

I

For some weeks after the happy event which transformed the popular Mrs.
Smithers into the charming Mrs. John Pedagog all went well at that