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First published in the U.S.A. 1959 Published in Great Britain by Victor Gollancz 1959 Published in Penguin Books 1968 Copyright © Leo Rosten, 1938, 1959 Copyright © ‘Hyman Kaplan, Ever Eumoirous’, Stanley Simon, Trustee, 1959
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Grateful acknowledgement is made to The New Yorker and Harpers’s Magazine, where several of these stories first appeared.
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