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First published in the U.S.A. 1961 Published in Great Britain by Hamish Hamilton 1961 Published in Penguin Books 1963
Copyright © James Thurber, 1955, 1956, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961 Copyright © The Curtis Publishing Co., 1954, 1960
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