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  THE FIRST GLOOMSTER]




  THE DREAMERS
  A Club. _Being a More or Less Faithful
  Account of the Literary Exercises
  of the First Regular Meeting
  of that Organization, Reported by_
  JOHN KENDRICK BANGS
  _WITH ILLUSTRATIONS_
  _By_ EDWARD PENFIELD

  [Illustration]

  NEW YORK AND LONDON
  HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
  1899




  BY THE SAME AUTHOR.

     PEEPS AT PEOPLE. Passages from the Writings of Anne Warrington
     Witherup, Journalist. Illustrated by EDWARD PENFIELD. 