How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes. Will Cuppy

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       Will Cuppy

      This is a Nonpareil Book, published in 2005 by

      DAVID R. GODINE · Publisher

      Post Office Box 450

      Jaffrey, New Hampshire 03542

       www.godine.com

      Copyright © 2005 by Phyllis Feldkamp

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission, except in the case of brief excerpts embodied in critical articles and reviews. For information write to Permissions, David R. Godine, Publisher, 9 Hamilton Place, Boston, Massachusetts 02108.

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      For permission to reprint certain portions of his text the author thanks The New Yorker and College Humor. He has added sundry jests which were considered too funny for magazine publication.

      LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

      Cuppy, Will, 1884-1949.

      How to tell your friends from the apes / by Will Cuppy ; introduction by P.G. Wodehouse ; illustrated by Jacks.

      p. cm. — (Nonpareil book)

      Originally published: New York : Liveright, 1931.

      ISBN 1-56792-297-x (softcover : alk. paper)

      1. Animals—Humor. I. Title. II. Series.

      PN6231.A5C863 2005

      818'.5202–DC22

      2005003640

      EBOOK ISBN 978-1-56792-635-4

      FOR

      ISABEL PATERSON TO WHOM I ALWAYS DEDICATE MY BOOKS

      CONTENTS

       Introduction

       Preface

       HOW TO TELL YOUR FRIENDS FROM THE APES

       MEMOIRS OF THE JUKES FAMILY, OR WHERE WE COME IN

       The Java Man

       The Peking Man

       The Piltdown Man

       The Heidelberg Man

       The Neanderthal Man

       The Cro-Magnon Man

       The Modern Man

       HOW TO TELL YOUR FRIENDS FROM THE APES, OR A MONKEY A DAY

       The Chimpanzee

       The Gorilla

       The Orang-utan

       The Gibbon

       The Baboon

       The Howling Monkey

       The Lemur

       WHAT I HATE ABOUT SPRING

       RETURN OF THE BIRDS

       The Robin

       The Wren

       The Cuckoo

       The Booby

       The Nightingale

       The Crow

       The Stork

       PERFECTLY DAMNABLE BIRDS

       The Great Bustard

       The Owl

       The Love Bird

       The Hen

       The Rooster

       The Canary

       BIRDS I COULD DO WITHOUT

       The Pewee

       The Common Babbler

       The Nuthatch

       The Loon

       The Water Ouzel

       The Flamingo

       FAREWELL TO BIRDS

       The Parrot

       The Penguin

      


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