The Water Beetle

Penguin Books Ltd, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England Penguin Books Pty Ltd, Ringwood, Victoria, Australia

First published by Hamish Hamilton 1962 Published in Penguin Books 1965

Copyright © Nancy Mitford, 1962

Made and printed in Great Britain by Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press), Ltd, Bungay, Suffolk Set in Monotype Baskerville

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