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 The Life of the Party
 
Cover - The Life of the Party Irvin S. Cobb
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BY IRVIN S. COBB FICTION The Life of the Party, Those Times and These, Local Color, Old Judge Priest, Fibble, D. D.,  Back Home, The Thunders of Silence, The Escape of Mr. Trimm. WIT AND HUMOR Eating In Two or Three Languages,  Speaking of Operations, Europe Revised, Roughing It De Luxe, Cobb's Bill of Fare, Cobb's Anatomy,  MISCELLANY The Glory of the Coming, Paths of Glory, Speaking of Prussians. GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY NEW YORK
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ARE YOU PAYIN' AN ELECTION BET THREE WEEKS AFTER THE ELECTION'S OVER? OR IS IT THAT YOU'RE JEST A PLAIN BEDADDLED IJIET?
"ARE YOU PAYIN' AN ELECTION BET THREE WEEKS AFTER THEELECTION'S OVER? OR IS IT THAT YOU'RE JEST A PLAIN BEDADDLED IJIET?"
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The Life of the Party By Irvin S. Cobb  Author of Back Home, Old Judge Priest, etc., etc. Illustrated By James M. Preston New York George H. Doran Company
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Copyright, 1919,
By George H. Doran Company
 
 
Copyright, 1919, by the Curtis Publishing Company
Printed in the United States of America
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 To
Mistress May Wilson Preston
A LADY OF GREAT DRAWING QUALITIES
 
 
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 ILLUSTRATIONS
"Are you payin' an election bet three weeks after the election's over? Or is itthat you're jest a plain bedaddled ijiet?"            Frontispiece
"That's nice," spake the fearsome stranger. "Now stay jest the way you are and don't make nopeep or I'll have to plug you wit' this here gat"
Mr. Leary's gait became a desperate gallop, and as he galloped he shouted: "Wait, please, here Iam.—Here's your passenger"
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 The Life of the Party
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It had been a successful party, most successful. Mrs. Carroway's partiesalways were successes, but this one nearing its conclusion stood outnotably from a long and unbroken Carrowayian record. It had been achildren's party; that is to say, everybody came in costume with intentto represent children of any age between one year and a dozen years. Buttwelve years was the limit; positively nobody, either in dress ordeportment, could be more than twelve years old. Mrs. Carroway had madethis point explicit in sending out the invitations, and so it had been,down to                        
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