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Fibble, D.D. By: Irvin S. Cobb (1876-1944) |
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Being Divers Episodes in
the Life of a Certain Young
Curate. Subdivided, for
Convenience, into Three Parts
BY IRVIN S. COBB FICTION FIBBLE, D.D.
LOCAL COLOR
OLD JUDGE PRIEST
BACK HOME
THE ESCAPE OF MR. TRIMM
WIT AND HUMOR "SPEAKING OF OPERATIONS ?"
EUROPE REVISED
ROUGHING IT DE LUXE
COBB'S BILL OF FARE
COBB'S ANATOMY
MISCELLANY PATHS OF GLORY GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
NEW YORK [Illustration: MOMENTARILY THE ARTICLES THAT FILLED MY ARMS AND HUNG ON
MY SHOULDERS AND BACK GREW MORE CUMBERSOME AND BURDENSOME]
Fibble, D.D. By Irvin S. Cobb Author of "Back Home," "Paths of Glory," etc. Illustrated by Tony Sarg [Illustration: Emblem] New York
George H. Doran Company
COPYRIGHT, 1916,
BY GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
COPYRIGHT, 1915 AND 1916,
BY THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
TO BOZEMAN BULGER, ESQ.
CONTENTS
PAGE
PART ONE: THE YOUNG NUTS OF AMERICA
Being a Card to the Public from the Pen of the
Rev. Roscoe Titmarsh Fibble, D. D. 13
PART TWO: ELSEWHERE IN FRANCE
Being an Open Letter Addressed by Dr. Fibble
to One Sitting in a High Place 109
PART THREE: LOVER'S LEAP
Being a Series of Extracts Culled from the
Diary of Dr. Fibble 203
ILLUSTRATIONS
Momentarily the articles that filled my arms
and hung on my shoulders and back grew more
cumbersome and burdensome Frontispiece PAGE
May I ask whether you are going to a fancy
dress party somewhere? 42 Until he loomed almost above my kneeling form 94 "I," she said, "am Major Jones" 132 From its depths I extracted the parting gifts
bestowed upon me by my Great Aunt Paulina 176 "Say coo coo clearly and distinctly and keep
on saying it until I call out 'Enough'" 234 To be exact, I kissed at her 268
PART ONE Being a Card to the Public from the Pen of the Rev. Roscoe Titmarsh
Fibble, D.D.
Fibble, D.D.
The Young Nuts of America
IT is with a feeling of the utmost reluctance, amounting if I may use
so strong a word to distress, that I take my pen in hand to indite the
exceedingly painful account which follows; yet I feel I owe it not only
to myself and the parishioners of St. Barnabas', but to the community at
large, to explain in amplified detail why I have withdrawn suddenly,
automatically as it were, from the organisation of youthful forest
rangers of which I was, during its brief existence, the actuating
spirit, and simultaneously have resigned my charge to seek a field of
congenial endeavour elsewhere. My first inclination was to remain silent; to treat with dignified
silence the grossly exaggerated statements that lately obtained
circulation, and, I fear me, credence, in some quarters, regarding the
circumstances which have inspired me in taking the above steps.
Inasmuch, however, as there has crept into the public prints hereabout a
so called item or article purporting to describe divers of my recent
lamentable experiences an item which I am constrained to believe the
author thereof regarded as being of a humorous character, but in which
no right minded person could possibly see aught to provoke mirth I have
abandoned my original resolution and shall now lay bare the true facts. In part my motive for so doing is based on personal grounds, for I have
indeed endured grievously both laceration of the tenderest sensibilities
and anguish of the corporeal body; but I feel also that I have a public
duty to perform... Continue reading book >>
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