Produced by Bryan Ness, Emmy and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) _Fibble, D.D._ * * * * * _Being Divers Episodes in the Life of a Certain Young Curate. Subdivided, for Convenience, into Three Parts_ BY IRVIN S. COBB * * * * * FICTION FIBBLE, D.D. LOCAL COLOR OLD JUDGE PRIEST BACK HOME THE ESCAPE OF MR. TRIMM WIT AND HUMOR "SPEAKING OF OPERATIONS----?" EUROPE REVISED ROUGHING IT DE LUXE COBB'S BILL OF FARE COBB'S ANATOMY MISCELLANY PATHS OF GLORY * * * * * GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY NEW YORK [Illustration: MOMENTARILY THE ARTICLES THAT FILLED MY ARMS AND HUNG ON MY SHOULDERS AND BACK GREW MORE CUMBERSOME AND BURDENSOME] _Fibble, D.D._ _By_ _Irvin S. Cobb_ _Author of "Back Home," "Paths of Glory," etc._ _Illustrated by Tony Sarg_ [Illustration: Emblem] _New York_ _George H. Doran Company_ COPYRIGHT, 1916, BY GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA COPYRIGHT, 1915 AND 1916, BY THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY TO BOZEMAN BULGER, ESQ. _CONTENTS_ PAGE PART ONE: THE YOUNG NUTS OF AMERICA _Being a Card to the Public from the Pen of the Rev. Roscoe Titmarsh Fibble, D. D._ 13 PART TWO: ELSEWHERE IN FRANCE _Being an Open Letter Addressed by Dr. Fibble to One Sitting in a High Place_ 109 PART THREE: LOVER'S LEAP _Being a Series of Extracts Culled from the Diary of Dr. Fibble_ 203 _ILLUSTRATIONS_ Momentarily the articles that filled my arms and hung on my shoulders and back grew more cumbersome and burdensome Frontispiece PAGE May I ask whether you are going to a fancy dress party somewhere? 42 Until he loomed almost above my kneeling form 94 "I," she said, "am Major Jones" 132 From its depths I extracted the parting gifts bestowed upon me by my Great-Aunt Paulina 176 "Say coo-coo clearly and distinctly and keep on saying it until I call out 'Enough'" 234 To be exact, I kissed at her 268 _PART ONE_ _Being a Card to the Public from the Pen of the Rev. Roscoe Titmarsh Fibble, D.D._ _Fibble, D.D._ _The Young Nuts of America_