The Pat Hobby Stories

Penguin Books Ltd, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England Penguin Books Australia Ltd, Ringwood, Victoria, Australia

First published in the U.S.A. 1962 Published in Penguin Books 1967 Copyright © Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1962 Except for the original version of ‘A Patriotic Short’ in the Appendix, all the stories in this volume appeared first in Esquire. Copyright 1939, 1940, 1941 Frances S. F. Lanahan. The following four stories are published with permission of The Bodley Head: ‘Boil Some Water - Lots of It’; ‘Teamed with Genius’; ‘A Patriotic Short’; ‘Two Old-Timers’.

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