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THE INVENTIONS
OF THE IDIOT

by

JOHN KENDRICK BANGS

Author of "A House-Boat on the Styx"
"The Pursuit of the House-Boat"
"Olympian Nights"
Etc. Etc.

New York and London
Harper & Brothers Publishers
1904