How to Attract the Wombat. Will Cuppy

       For Marione

      This is a Nonpareil Book, first published in 2001 by

      DAVID R. GODINE · Publisher

      Post Office Box 450

      Jaffrey, New Hampshire, 03542

       www.godine.com

      Copyright © 2001 by Phyllis Feldkamp

      All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission, except in the case of brief excerpts embodied in critical articles and reviews.

      For permission to use all the short animal pieces and two others which appear here in longer versions the author thanks the Saturday Evening Post. “Swan-upping, Indeed!” was first printed in The New Yorker. Certain other articles of particular interest to Wombat enthusiasts were written especially for this book.

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      CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

      Cuppy, Will, 1884–1949

      How to attract the wombat / by Will Cuppy ;

      illustrations by Ed Nofziger

      p. cm. — (Nonpareil books ; 93)

      Originally pulished: New York : Rinehart, 1949

      ISBN 1–56792–156–6 (softcover : alk. paper)

      Ebook ISBN 978-1-56792-575-3

      1. American wit and humor. I. Title: Wombat.

      II. Nofziger, Ed. III. Title.

      IV. Nonpareil book ; 93.

      PN6161.C789 2000

      814'.52—dc21 00–061714

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