Title:  One Third Off

Author:  Irvin S. Cobb

Illustrator:  Tony Sarg

Release Date:  July 4, 2005 [EBook #16197]

Language:  English

Character set encoding:  ASCII

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One Third Off

By Irvin S. Cobb

Fiction

From place to place
those times and these
local color
old judge Priest
back home
the escape of Mr. Trimm

Wit and Humor

One third off
A plea for old Cap Collier
the abandoned Farmers
the life of the party
eating in two or three languages
“Oh well, you know how women are!”
FIBBLE D.D. 
“Speaking of operations—­”
Europe revised
ROUGHING it de luxe
Cobb’s Bill of Fare
Cobb’s anatomy

Miscellany

The thunders of silence
the glory of the coming
paths of glory
“Speaking of Prussians—­”

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New York

George H. Doran Company

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[Illustration:  I weighed myself and in the box score credited myself with A profound shock. Frontispiece]

One Third Off

By

Irvin S. Cobb

Author of "Old Judge Priest,” “Speaking of Operations—­” Etc.

Illustrated by Tony Sarg

New York

George H. Doran Company

Copyright, 1921,

By George H. Doran Company

Copyright, 1921,

By The Curtis Publishing Company

Printed in the United States of America

One Third Off

TO
HARRY M. STEVENS, ESQUIRE
WHO IN TIMES GONE BY HELPED ME
PUT THAT ONE THIRD ON

CONTENTS

CHAPTER ONE:  PAGE Extra!  Extra!  All About the Great Reduction 15