Tiberius Smith

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Tiberius Smith (1907)
by Hugh Pendexter, illustrated by Albert Levering

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[Subtitled: As Chronicled by His Right-hand Man Billy Campbell. Almost all of these farcical short stories were first published individually in various magazines.]

Review in The Nation, April 1907: Tiberius is a showman and travelling collector of curiosities for his show. [...] Not every day can even a Tiberius Smith play poker with Arctic giants for his own freedom; drive an automobile around the inner rim of a South American crater, [...] For the lover of the circus in literature here are thoughts that breathe; for the collector of the ultra modern and vaudevillainous in slang, words that burn; remain, for the lover of a book in the accepted sense of that word, feelings not fit for publication.

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"'DON'T SIT WITH FOLDED ARMS. THAT'S TOO MUCH, EVEN IN A HYENA'"

TIBERIUS SMITH

AS CHRONICLED BY HIS
RIGHT-HAND MAN
BILLY CAMPBELL

BY
HUGH PENDEXTER

NEW YORK AND LONDON
HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
MCMVII

Copyright, 1906, 1907, by Harper & Brothers.

Copyright, 1904, 1906, by The Red Book Corporation.

Copyright, 1905, 1906, by The Frank A. Munsey Company.

Copyright, 1905, by The Curtis Publishing Company.

Copyright, 1906, 1907, by Leonard Darbyshire.

Copyright, 1905, 1906, by The Ridgway Company

All rights reserved.
Published March, 1907.

CONTENTS

CHAP. PAGE

I.

HIS FIRST ADMINISTRATION

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1

II.

THE TOWN THAT LOST ITSELF

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16

III.

FIVE-DOG LIMIT AT 65° N

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36

IV.

FOR THE SEAL RIVER BELT

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56

V.

WHEN KNIGHTHOOD WORE SKATES

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78

VI.

AN ARCTIC-CIRCLE TOUCH-DOWN

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99

VII.

THE REFORM AT RED ANT

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120

VIII.

WHEN LUNACY WAS TRUMPS

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139

IX.

A CORNER IN JURISDICTION

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159

X.

AN APPRECIATIVE JUNGLE

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178

XI.

A CORNER IN AMALGAMATED DOG

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197

XII.

THE BASEBALL GOD

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220

XIII.

FOR THE ZAPOPAXI CUP

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239

XIV.

A FEW VOLCANIC DOG-BISCUIT

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263

XV.

SOME MODERN GLADIATORS

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285

XVI.

WITH CASTE AGAINST HIM

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311

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1929.

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