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    Droozle
    Droozle
    Droozle
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    Droozle

    By Frank Banta

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 25, 2013
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      Droozle - Frank Banta

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Droozle, by Frank Banta

      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

      re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included

      with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org

      Title: Droozle

      Author: Frank Banta

      Release Date: October 22, 2007 [EBook #23148]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DROOZLE ***

      Produced by Greg Weeks, Rebecca Hoath and the Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

      DROOZLE

      Droozle was probably the greatest writer in the world—any world!

      By FRANK BANTA

      Jean Lanni could see that his girl friend, Judy Stokes, thought it was the lamest excuse she had ever heard. If your ballpoint pen won't write as you want it to, your life doesn't stop, she probably was thinking. You just get yourself another pen—You don't call off a marriage....

      Skeptically the girl with the long, golden red hair pointed at his breast pocket. This Droozle I must see. And who's that other member of the partnership there beside him? An Eversharp pencil named Blackie?

      No, that is the other end of Droozle. Permit me to introduce you. Blandly the tall, young artist slid Droozle from his breast pocket, straightened him from his U-shape and handed his twelve-inch pen to her.

      A snake! she shrieked.

      What else?

      Why, I thought those ruby eyes were jewels! I must have squeezed right up against him when I kissed you, she cried indignantly.

      "You did. I felt

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