Transcriber’s Note Larger versions of the illustrations may be seen by right-clicking them and selecting an option to view them separately, or by double-tapping and/or stretching them. An Experiment in Gyro-Hats By ELLIS PARKER BUTLER Author of “Pigs is Pigs,” etc. Illustrations by ALBERT LEVERING SPECIAL EDITION The Q and C Co. The Q and C Co. NEW YORK AND CHICAGO 3 3 An Experiment in Gyro-Hats By Ellis Parker Butler Ellis Parker Butler Author of “Pigs is Pigs,” etc. Illustrations by Albert Levering Albert Levering The idea of a gyro-hat did not come to me all at once, as some great ideas come to inventors; and in fact I may say that but for a most unpleasant circumstance I might never have thought of gyro-hats at all, although I had for many years been considering the possibility of utilizing the waste space in the top of silk hats in some way or other. As a practical hat dealer and lover of my kind, it had always seemed to me a great economical waste to have a large vacant space
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