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“LAUGH OFT, AND DEFY THE DOCTOR.” Toothsome Tales Told in Slang By BILLY BURGUNDY. A book of fascinating stories about fasci- mating folks . .......2+6.-. Pretty women before and behind the foot. lights, artists and their models, literary men of Bohemian tendencies, these are the people whom Billy Burgundy has se- lected for characterization. True, they speak their lines in slang, but it is the slang of the educated, and is always artistic while delight- fully amusing . . . . , ©. « © «© «© « Pronounced by press and public one of the funniest books ever published .... . The illustrations are by Outcault, Swin- nerton, Marriner, Rigby, Pal, McAuley, Lemon, Cobb and Bryans, ..... . Copiously Illustrated. Price, 75 cents. STREET AND SMITH, New York and London CONMUG JOO cS (GO)