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Cobb Irvin Shrewsbury. At His Best
At His Best
Table of Contents
I “SPEAKING OF OPERATIONS—”
II. EATING IN TWO OR THREE LANGUAGES
III. THE LIFE OF THE PARTY
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VI
VII
VIII
IX
X
XI
XII
XIII
XIV
IV. A PLEA FOR OLD CAP COLLIER
V. ONE THIRD OFF
I: EXTRA! EXTRA! ALL ABOUT THE GREAT REDUCTION
II: THOSE ROMPING ELFIN TWENTIES
III: REGARDING LIVER-EATING WATKINS AND OTHERS
IV: I BECOME THE PANTING CHAMPION
V: ON ACQUIRING SOME SNAPPY PORES
VI: MORE ANON
VII: OFFICE VISITS, $10
VIII: THE FRIENDLY SONS OF THE BOILED SPINACH
IX: ADVENTURE OF THE FALLEN EGG
X: WHEREIN OUR HERO FALTERS
XI: THREE CHEERS FOR LITHESOME GRACE REGAINED!
VI. THE YOUNG NUTS OF AMERICA
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Irvin Cobb
Published by Good Press, 2021
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After that, at intervals, the chief house surgeon dropped in, without knocking, and the head nurse came, and an interne or so, and a ward nurse, and the special nurse who was to have direct charge of me. It dawned on me that I was not having any more privacy in that hospital than a goldfish.
About eleven o’clock an orderly came, and, without consulting my wishes in the matter, he undressed me until I could have passed almost anywhere for September Morn’s father, and gave me a clean shave, twice over, on one of my most prominent plane surfaces. I must confess I enjoyed that part of it. So far as I am able to recall, it was the only shave I have ever had where the operator did not spray me with cheap perfumery afterward and then try to sell me a bottle of hair tonic.
