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PARNASSUS ON WHEELS, by CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

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PARNASSUS ON WHEELS

BY

CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

GROSSET & DUNLAP, Publishers
By arrangement with
Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.



Copyright 1917



To
H.B.F. and H.F.M.
"Trusty, dusky, vivid,true"




A LETTER TO
David Grayson, Esq.
OF HEMPFIELD, U. S. A.

MY DEAR SIR,

Although my name appears on the title page, the real author of
this book is Miss Helen McGill (now Mrs. Roger Mifflin), who
told me the story with her own inimitable vivacity. And on her
behalf I want to send to you these few words of acknowledgment.

Mrs. Mifflin, I need hardly say, is unskilled in the arts of
authorship: this is her first book, and I doubt whether she
will ever write another. She hardly realized, I think, how
much her story owes to your own delightful writings. There