Over the Plum-Pudding

by

John Kendrick Bangs

Author of

"A House-Boat on the Styx"

"Coffee and Repartee"

"The Idiot at Home"

"The Idiot"

Illustrated

New York and London

Harper & Brothers Publishers

1901

Copyright, 1901, by Harper & Brothers.

TO

JOHN KENDRICK BANGS, Jr.

WHOSE FONDNESS FOR PLUM PUDDINGS

SUGGESTS THE PROPRIETY OF THIS

Dedication

Thanks are due to the Publishers of Harper's Round Table, Harper's Weekly, The Delineator, Life, Brooklyn Life, and the New York Mail and Express for permission to republish these stories in collected form.

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