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Pigs is pigs by ellis parker butler, paperback barnes. Mike flannery, the agent of the interurban express company, leaned over the desk in the companys office in westcote and shook his fist. Light edge staining and rippling to the front and rear preliminaries, armorial bookplate at the halftitle, otherwise very clean and. Limited to 198 copies of which 80 are in stiff paper wrappers. Ellis parker butler, pigs is pigs, american short fiction, lit2go edition, 1905, accessed february 06, 2019. Miss kane made a series of curves and angles on her note book and waited with pencil poised.
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