Further Foolishness

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Stephen Leacock. Further Foolishness

Preface

Follies in Fiction

I. Stories Shorter Still

(I) AN IRREDUCIBLE DETECTIVE STORY

(II) A COMPRESSED OLD ENGLISH NOVEL

(III) A CONDENSED INTERMINABLE NOVEL

II. Snoopopaths; or, Fifty Stories in One

III. Foreign Fiction in Imported Instalments

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER IV

Movies and Motors, Men and Women

IV. Madeline of the Movies: A Photoplay done back into Words

EXPLANATORY NOTE

V. The Call of the Carburettor, or, Mr. Blinks and his Friends

VI. The Two Sexes in Fives or Sixes. A Dinner-party Study

VII. The Grass Bachelor's Guide. With sincere Apologies to the Ladies' Periodicals

VIII. Every Man and his Friends. Mr. Crunch's Portrait Gallery (as Edited from his Private Thoughts)

(I) HIS VIEWS ON HIS EMPLOYER

(II) THE MINISTER WHOSE CHURCH HE ATTENDS

(III) HIS PARTNER AT BRIDGE

(IV) HIS HOSTESS AT DINNER

(V) HIS LITTLE SON

IX. More than Twice-told Tales; or, Every Man his Own Hero

(I)

(II)

(III)

X. A Study in Still Life—My Tailor

Peace, War, and Politics

XI. Germany from Within Out

XII. Abdul Aziz has His: An Adventure in the Yildiz Kiosk

XIII. In Merry Mexico

XIV. Over the Grape Juice; or, The Peacemakers

XV. The White House from Without In Being Extracts from the Diary of a President of the United States

Timid Thoughts on Timely Topics

XVI. Are the Rich Happy?

XVII. Humour as I See It

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Among the latest follies in fiction is the perpetual demand for stories shorter and shorter still. The only thing to do is to meet this demand at the source and check it. Any of the stories below, if left to soak overnight in a barrel of rainwater, will swell to the dimensions of a dollar-fifty novel.

The mystery had now reached its climax. First, the man had been undoubtedly murdered. Secondly, it was absolutely certain that no conceivable person had done it.

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One day he questioned his professor.

"Is the law just?" he said. "Is it right to kill?"

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