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A COLLECTION OF

GO O PS CONTAINING: GOOPS and How to Be Them • MORE GOOPS and How Not to Be Them • An Alphabet of FA M O U S G O O P S

BY GELETT BURGESS St. Au g u stine Acade my P re s s Lisle, Illinois

This volume is a compilation of two previously published books and an excerpt from a third.

Goops and How to Be Them was originally published in 1900.

More Goops and How Not to Be Them was originally published in 1903.

“An Alphabet of Famous Goops” is taken from The Burgess Nonsense Book, published in 1901.

All were published by Frederick A Stokes Company.

This edition ©2012 by St. Augustine Academy Press.

ISBN: 978-1-936639-14-4 Library of Congress Control Number: 2012932279

All illustrations in this volume, including the cover, are the original illustrations as found in the books listed above.

The frontispiece and overleaf illustrations were taken from contemporary sources now in the public domain.

Contents Goops and How to Be Them . . . . . . 1 More Goops and How Not to Be Them . 89 An Alphabet of Famous Goops . . . . 183

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