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040 _aPGUSA
_beng
042 _adc
050 4 _aPS
100 1 _aLeacock, Stephen,
_d1869-1944
245 1 0 _aLiterary Lapses
_h[electronic resource] /
_cStephen Leacock
260 _bProject Gutenberg,
_c2004
505 0 _aMy financial career -- Lord Oxhead's secret -- Boarding-house geometry -- The awful fate of Melpomenus Jones -- A Christmas letter -- How to make a million dollars -- How to live to be 200 -- How to avoid getting married -- How to be a doctor -- The new food -- A new pathology -- The poet answered -- The force of statistics -- Men who have shaved me -- Getting the thread of it -- Telling his faults -- Winter pastimes -- Number fifty-six -- Aristocratic education -- The conjurer's revenge -- Hints to travellers -- A manual of education -- Hoodoo McFiggin's Christmas -- The life of John Smith -- On collecting things -- Society chit-chat -- Insurance up to-date -- Borrowing a match -- A lesson in fiction -- Helping the Armenians -- A study in still life: the country hotel -- An experiment with Policeman Hogan -- The passing of the poet -- Self-made men -- A model dialogue -- Bach to the bush -- Reflections on riding -- Saloonio -- Half-hours with the poets: Mr. Wordsworth and the cottage girl; How Tennyson killed the May queen; Old Mr. Longfellow on board the "Hesperus" -- A, B, and C.
506 _aPublic domain in the USA.
516 _aElectronic text
653 _aHumorous stories, Canadian
830 0 _aProject Gutenberg
_v6340
856 4 0 _uhttp://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6340
942 _cEB
999 _c235663
_d235663