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Canadian Poetry from the Beginnings Through the First World War, #51
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Literary Lapses by Stephen Leacock, #49
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Stephen Leacock isn't that funny. Humourous, yes. But laugh until your tummy hurts? No. You've got to go to Wodehouse for that. Some of these little sketches I found more humourous than others. "My Financial Career" still cracks me up. The guy who's so polite that he can't insist upon leaving when his equally polite hosts press upon him to stay a bit longer. The guy who thinks he's a Shakespeare-ophile, but ends up creating a character out of whole cloth when he doesn't want to admit that he got
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