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    Square Pegs A Rhymed Fantasy For Two Girls
    Square Pegs A Rhymed Fantasy For Two Girls
    Square Pegs A Rhymed Fantasy For Two Girls
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    Square Pegs A Rhymed Fantasy For Two Girls

    By Clifford Bax

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Square Pegs A Rhymed Fantasy For Two Girls - Clifford Bax

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Square Pegs, by Clifford Bax

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      Title: Square Pegs

             A Rhymed Fantasy For Two Girls

      Author: Clifford Bax

      Release Date: July 25, 2013 [EBook #43299]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SQUARE PEGS ***

      Produced by Clarity, Charlie Howard, and the Online

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

      file was produced from images generously made available

      by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

      SQUARE PEGS

      A RHYMED FANTASY FOR

      TWO GIRLS   By Clifford Bax

      By the Same Author

      Poems Dramatic and Lyrical, 1911. A few remaining copies can be had from Hendersons

      The Poetasters of Ispahan. A Comedy in Verse 1912. (Out of print.) Goschen

      A House of Words (Poems) Blackwell   5s

      HERE is a house of words

      Built for the maker's mind.

      Enter: and, if you will, stay with me long.

      But, if you like it not,

      Go with good grace. The man

      Who builds his own house builds to please himself.

      Twenty-five Chinese Poems, paraphrased by Clifford Bax. Second Edition Revised and Enlarged Hendersons   1s

      Friendship (An Essay) Batsford   3s

      Antique Pageantry: Four Plays in verse (including The Poetasters). (In the Press)

      SQUARE PEGS

      SQUARE PEGS

      A Rhymed Fantasy for Two Girls

      BY

      CLIFFORD BAX

      LONDON: HENDERSONS

      66 Charing Cross Road, W.C.

      1920

      To

      H. F. RUBINSTEIN

      This play was first performed at Farthingstone on June 19th, 1919, by Phyllis Reid (Hilda Gray) and Margot Sieveking (Gioconda), having been written at their request.

      SQUARE PEGS

      CHARACTERS.

      SCENE.

      A Garden. Entrance right and left. Left, a table and two chairs. (The general effect

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