Ladies and Gentlemen

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Irvin S. Cobb. Ladies and Gentlemen

Ladies and Gentlemen

Table of Contents

The Order of the Bath

Two of Everything

We of the Old South

Killed with Kindness

Peace on Earth

Three Wise Men of the East Side

The Cowboy and the Lady—And Her Pa

A Close Shave

Good Sam

How to Choke a Cat Without Using Butter

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Irvin S. Cobb

Published by Good Press, 2021

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On the second morning the ancient greeted her in what plainly was his official wardrobe for parading. A frayed and threadbare butternut jacket, absurdly short, with a little peaked tail sticking out behind and a line of tarnished brass buttons spaced down its front, hung grotesquely upon his withered framework. Probably it had fitted him once; now it was acres too loose. Pinned to the left breast was a huge badge, evidently home-made, of yellowed white silk, and lengthwise of it in straggled letters worked with faded red floss ran the number and name of his regiment. In his hand he carried a slouch-hat which had been black once but now was a rusty brown, with a scrap of black ostrich-plume fastened to its band by a brass token.

With trembling fingers he proudly caressed the badge.

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