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GENTLE JULIA

BY BOOTH TARKINGTON

ILLUSTRATED BY C. ALLAN GILBERT and WORTH BREHM

GROSSET & DUNLAP,PUBLISHERS NEW YORK

Made in the United States of America

COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

COPYRIGHT, 1918, BY P. F. COLLIER AND SON COMPANY

COPYRIGHT, 1919, BY THE PICTORIAL REVIEW COMPANY

TO M. L. K.

"Rising to the point of order, this one said that since the morgue was not yet established as the central monument and inspiration of our settlement, and true philosophy was as well expounded in the convivial manner as in the miserable, he claimed for himself, not the license, but the right, to sing a ballad, if he chose, upon even so solemn a matter as the misuse of the town pump by witches."