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                            Tamawaca Folks

                                   A
                             Summer Comedy

                          By JOHN ESTES COOKE

                              Publishers
                          THE TAMAWACA PRESS
                               U. S. A.

                          Copyrighted 1907 by
                             G. J. WILSON




               List of Chapters


                                    PAGE

     I The Lawyer                      9

    II Jim                            18

   III Wilder                         31

    IV Just Girls                     53

     V Getting Acquainted             66

    VI Found Out                      80

   VII The Meeting                    96

  VIII Something Doing               114

    IX Developing the Negative       122

     X Jim Gets a Raise              135

    XI Rough-housing                 152

   XII Mrs. Herringford's Party      161

  XIII Reconciliation                172

   XIV Of Course                     184




Tamawaca Folks




EXPLANATIVE.


The author begs to state that whatever is contained in this modest
volume has been written in a spirit of the broadest goodfellowship, and
with malice toward none. He has met odd and entertaining people in all
quarters of the world and has brought them together in "Tamawaca Folks"
merely that he might weave them into his little romance, and with no
thought of being in any way personal. Therefore, since these are many
and variant types and can have no individuality for that reason, the
writer begs his reader not to attempt to fit any of the fictitious
characters to living persons, lest your neighbor try to fit one of
my masquerade costumes to you--which would be an impertinence I am
sure you would not like. The temptation, I admit, is natural, because
the people portrayed are all human and even their composites have
prot