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      Copyright © 2005 by Phyllis Feldkamp

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      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

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      ISABEL PATERSON TO WHOM I ALWAYS DEDICATE MY BOOKS

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