The Revolt of the Oyster

Don Marquis

Line Drawings By Sterling Patterson Garden City, N. Y., and Toronto Doubleday, Page K Company 1921 [Illustration: 0010] [Illustration: 0011] ACKNOWLEDGMENT The author thanks the Publishers...

Don Marquis

CHAPTER I HOW I come not to have a last name is a question that has always had more or less aggervation mixed up with it.

Don Marquis

"_Our remote ancestor was probably arboreal."_--Eminent scientist.

Don Marquis

CHAPTER I HOW I come not to have a last name is a question that has always had more or less aggervation mixed up with it.

Jane Austen

Chapter 1 It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Letter 1 St. Petersburgh, Dec. 11th, 17-- TO Mrs. Saville, England You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such ...

Herman Melville

Original Transcriber's Notes: This text is a combination of etexts, one from the now-defunct ERIS project at Virginia Tech and one from Project Gutenberg's archives.

Charles Dickens

Book the First--Recalled to Life I. The Period It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was...