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    The Foolish Almanak
    The Foolish Almanak
    The Foolish Almanak
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    The Foolish Almanak

    By Wallace Goldsmith and Theodore Roosevelt

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      The Foolish Almanak - Wallace Goldsmith

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Foolish Almanak, by Anonymous

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever.  You may copy it, give it away or

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      Title: The Foolish Almanak

      Author: Anonymous

      Illustrator: Wallace Goldsmith

      Release Date: July 7, 2012 [EBook #40145]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE FOOLISH ALMANAK ***

      Produced by David Edwards and the Online Distributed

      Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was

      produced from images generously made available by The

      Internet Archive)

      THE

      FOOLISH ALMANAK

      For Anuthur Year

      THE FURST CINC THE INTRODUKSHUN OV THE MUK-RAKE IN MAGAZEEN GARDNING, AND THE SPELING REFORM OV OWR LANGWIJ

      By THEODOR ROSYFELT

      Thair hay bin uthur Yearz but non like this. Thingz wil Hapn.

      313 Dayz wil kum and 313 Dayz wil go and thair wil be 52 Sundayz evn in the best regulayted Familiz. Thair wil be at leest wun 23 for yu in eech munth.

      LIFE WITHOUT IT WIL BE UN-SEAZOND

      By kind Purmishun ov the Jawn D. Rawkyfelurs the Sun and Moon wil be purmitted 2 Arize and Shine. The Shuberts wil regulayte the Starz, and the Planits wil du the best they kan.

      Hetty Green and J. Peerpont Morgun have garanteed the Wethur.

      WITH APOLOGIZ TO THE KARNAGY SPELING SKOOL

      PURPETRAYTED, WITH THE AID OV WALLACE GOLDSMITH'S PICTURZ, BY

      JOHN W. LUCE AND COMPANY

      BOSTON   1906   LONDON

      Copyright, 1906, by

      John W. Luce & Company

      Boston, Mass., U. S. A.

      The Plimpton Press Norwood Mass. U.S.A.

      Greeting

      Time was, is, and will be. Almanacks

      have come and Almanacks

      have gone. But Time has survived.

      Only the Foolish Almanack

      has been equal to the pleasant

      Task of Killing it.

      We offer the Book as our Defense.

      THE PUBLISHERS.

      HELPFUL HINT FOR JANUARY

      UP IN MAINE

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