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The Matrimonial Bureau by Carolyn Wells and Harry Persons Taber

BOSTON•AND•NEW•YORK Houghton Mifflin & Company THE•RIVERSIDE•PRESS•CAMBRIDGE 1905

COPYRIGHT 1905 BY CAROLYN WELLS AND HARRY PERSONS TABER ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

_Published April 1905_

TO NANCY

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

1. “I’M NOT A SPOILED CHILD”

2. TEA ON THE EAST PORCH

3. IN THE BROILING SUN, OBLIVIOUS OF THE HEAT

4. “SUPPOSE YOU TAKE MISS FOWLER HOME”