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       PREFACE

       STEPHEN LEACOCK

       Follies in Fiction

       I. Stories Shorter Still

       (I) AN IRREDUCIBLE DETECTIVE STORY

       (II) A COMPRESSED OLD ENGLISH NOVEL

       SWEARWORD THE UNPRONOUNCEABLE

       CHAPTER ONE AND ONLY

       (III) A CONDENSED INTERMINABLE NOVEL

       II. Snoopopaths; or, Fifty Stories in One

       III. Foreign Fiction in Imported Instalments.

       Serge the Superman: A Russian Novel

       CHAPTER I

       CHAPTER II

       CHAPTER III

       CHAPTER IV

       Madame Vasselitch took Serge by the hand.

       Movies and Motors, Men and Women

       EXPLANATORY NOTE.

       (I) HIS VIEWS ON HIS EMPLOYER

       (II) THE MINISTER WHOSE CHURCH HE ATTENDS

       (III) HIS PARTNER AT BRIDGE

       (IV) HIS HOSTESS AT DINNER

       BUT,

       (V) HIS LITTLE SON

       (I)

       (II)

       (III)

       X. A Study in Still Life—My Tailor

       Peace, War, and Politics

       XI. Germany from Within Out

       XIII. In Merry Mexico

       XIV. Over the Grape Juice; or, The Peacemakers

       Characters

       XV. The White House from Without In

       Timid Thoughts on Timely Topics

       XVI. Are the Rich Happy?

       XVII. Humour as I See It

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      Many years ago when I was a boy at school, we had over our class an ancient and spectacled schoolmaster who was as kind at heart as he was ferocious in appearance, and whose memory has suggested to me the title of this book.

      It was his practice, on any outburst of gaiety in the class-room, to chase us to our seats with a bamboo cane and to shout at us in defiance:

       Now, then, any further foolishness?

      I find by experience that there are quite a number of indulgent readers who are good enough to adopt the same expectant attitude towards me now.

STEPHEN LEACOCK

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      McGILL UNIVERSITY MONTREAL

      November 1, 1916

Follies in Fiction

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