A Study in Scarlet — page 186: what you’re looking at

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“LAUGH OFT, AND DEFY THE DOCTOR.” loothsome Tales Told in Slang .... By BILLY BURGUNDY. A book of fascinating stories about fasci- nating folks - 8 ee Pretty women before and behind the foot- lights, artists and their models, literary men of Bohemian tendencies, these are the people whom Billy Burgundy has se- lected for characterization. True, they speak their lines in slang, but it is the slang of the educated, and 1s always artistic while delight- fully amusing . Pronounced by press and public one of the funniest books ever published ..... The illustrations are by Outcault, Swin- nerton, Marriner, Rigby, Pal, McAuley, Lemon, Cobband Bryans. ... Copiously Illustrated. Price, 75 cents. STREET AND SMITH, New York and London comicbooks.com