Produced by Bryan Ness, Melissa Er-Raqabi and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net. _One Third Off_ _By Irvin S. Cobb_ _Fiction_ FROM PLACE TO PLACE THOSE TIMES AND THESE LOCAL COLOR OLD JUDGE PRIEST BACK HOME THE ESCAPE OF MR. TRIMM _Wit and Humor_ ONE THIRD OFF A PLEA FOR OLD CAP COLLIER THE ABANDONED FARMERS THE LIFE OF THE PARTY EATING IN TWO OR THREE LANGUAGES "OH WELL, YOU KNOW HOW WOMEN ARE!" FIBBLE D.D. "SPEAKING OF OPERATIONS--" EUROPE REVISED ROUGHING IT DE LUXE COBB'S BILL OF FARE COBB'S ANATOMY _Miscellany_ THE THUNDERS OF SILENCE THE GLORY OF THE COMING PATHS OF GLORY "SPEAKING OF PRUSSIANS--" * * * * * _New York_ _George H. Doran Company_ * * * * * [Illustration: I WEIGHED MYSELF AND IN THE BOX SCORE CREDITED MYSELF WITH A PROFOUND SHOCK. _Frontispiece_] _One Third Off_ _By_ _Irvin S. Cobb_ _Author of_ _"Old Judge Priest," "Speaking_ _of Operations--" Etc._ _Illustrated by Tony Sarg_ _New York_ _George H. Doran Company_ _Copyright, 1921,_ _By George H. Doran Company_ _Copyright, 1921,_ _By The Curtis Publishing Company_ _Printed in the United States of America_ _One Third Off_ TO HARRY M. STEVENS, ESQUIRE WHO IN TIMES GONE BY HELPED ME PUT THAT ONE THIRD ON _CONTENTS_ CHAPTER ONE: PAGE _Extra! Extra! All About the Great Reduction_ 15 CHAPTER TWO: _Those Romping Elfin Twenties_ 25 CHAPTER THREE: _Regarding Liver-Eating Watkins and Others_ 31 CHAPTER FOUR: _I Become the Panting Champion_ 41 CHAPTER FIVE: _On Acquiring Some Snappy Pores_ 55 CHAPTER SIX: _More Anon_ 65 CHAPTER SEVEN: _Office Visits, $10_ 75 CHAPTER EIGHT: _The Friendly Sons of the Boiled Spinach_ 95 CHAPTER NINE: _The Fallen Egg_ 111 CHAPTER TEN: _Wherein Our Hero Falters_ 121 CHAPTER ELEVEN: _Three Cheers for Lithesome Grace Regained_ 145 ILLUSTRATIONS I weighed myself and in the box score credited myself with a profound shock _Frontispiece_ "64 Broad" 19 To observe Mr. Bryan breakfasting is a sight worth seeing 45 "You are now registering the preliminary warnings--" 87 CHAPTER I _Extra! Extra! All About The Great Reduction!_