Behind the Beyond, and Other Contributions to Human Knowledge

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Stephen Leacock. Behind the Beyond, and Other Contributions to Human Knowledge

BEHIND THE BEYOND. A Modern Problem Play

Act I.—Behind the Beyond

Act II.—Six Months Later

Act III. Three Months Later

FAMILIAR INCIDENTS

I.—With the Photographer

II.—The Dentist and the Gas

III.—My Lost Opportunities

IV.—My Unknown Friend

V.—Under the Barber's Knife

PARISIAN PASTIMES

I.—The Advantages of a Polite Education

II.—The Joys of Philanthropy

>III.—The Simple Life in Paris

IV.—A Visit to Versailles

V.—Paris at Night

THE RETROACTIVE EXISTENCE OF MR. JUGGINS

MAKING A MAGAZINE (The Dream of a Contributor)

HOMER AND HUMBUG. AN ACADEMIC DISCUSSION

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THE curtain rises, disclosing the ushers of the theater still moving up and down the aisles. Cries of "Program!" "Program!" are heard. There is a buzz of brilliant conversation, illuminated with flashes of opera glasses and the rattle of expensive jewelry.

Then suddenly, almost unexpectedly, in fact just as if done, so to speak, by machinery, the lights all over the theater, except on the stage, are extinguished. Absolute silence falls. Here and there is heard the crackle of a shirt front. But there is no other sound.

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"Long ago."

"Was she married then?"

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