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Shandygaff, by Christopher Morley
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Title: Shandygaff
Author: Christopher Morley
Release Date: October 13, 2004 [eBook #13739]
Language: English
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SHANDYGAFF
by
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
1918
A number of most agreeable Inquirendoes upon Life & Letters, interspersed with Short Stories & Skits, the whole most Diverting to the Reader
[Illustration: Photo by Charles H. Davis
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY, AUTHOR OF SHANDYGAFF, WHERE THE BLUE BEGINS, THUNDER ON THE LEFT, ETC.]
TITLES AND DEDICATIONS
I wanted to call these exercises "Casual Ablutions," in memory of the immortal sign in the washroom of the British Museum, but my arbiter of elegance forbade it. You remember that George Gissing, homeless and penniless on London streets, used to enjoy the lavatory of the Museum Reading Room as a fountain and a shrine. But the flinty hearted trustees, finding him using the wash-stand for bath-tub and laundry, were exceeding wroth, and set up the notice
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THESE BASINS ARE FOR CASUAL ABLUTIONS ONLY
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