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Questions about the works of the Canadian teacher, political scientist, writer and humourist Stephen Leacock (1869–1944) or his life as a writer.

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Who was the "Dutch author", "Bumstone Bumstone"?

In Stephen Leacock's Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, we have the following description of a minor character: Mallory Tompkins was a young man with long legs and check trousers who worked on the ...
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