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                                THE ART
                            ... OF...
                                KISSING.

                 [Illustration: SEVEN.

                 At seven!! a sly kiss is so sweet,
                 To steal one now and then’s a treat.]

                            Curiously,
                            Historically,
                                Humorously,
                                Poetically
                            Considered.

                [Illustration: SEVENTEEN.

                At seventeen!! they’re nicer still,
                And there’s a way where there’s a will.]

                               DEDICATED
                                   TO
                             ALL WHO LOVE.

                 [Illustration: SEVENTY.

                 At seventy!! it’s just the same,
                 They still keep up the old, old game.]

                               New York:
                   J. S. Ogilvie Publishing Company,
                            57 Rose Street.

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                                  THE

                            ART OF KISSING.


                        CURIOUSLY, HISTORICALLY,
                         HUMOROUSLY, POETICALLY
                              CONSIDERED.

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                  (COPYRIGHT, 1902, BY WILL ROSSITER.)

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                               NEW YORK:
                   J. S. OGILVIE PUBLISHING COMPANY,
                            57 ROSE STREET.




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                                  THE

                            ART OF KISSING.




                                   I.

    ORIGIN OF KISSING; THE SCANDINAVIAN TRADITION; AN OLD
        POET’S IDEA—KISSING IN ANCIENT ROME, AND AMONG THE
        JEWS AND EARLY CHRISTIANS—BIBLICAL KISSING—RELIGIOUS
        SIGNIFICANCE—KISSING IN EARLY ENGLAND—ANCIENT KISSING
        CUSTOMS AS DESCRIBED BY ERASMUS—THE PURITANICAL V