The Wit and Humor of America, Volume V
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Marshall Pinckney Wilder. The Wit and Humor of America, Volume V
THE MARRIAGE OF SIR JOHN SMITH
THE SPRING BEAUTIES
GOING UP AND COMING DOWN
THE SET OF CHINA
SUPPRESSED CHAPTERS1
OLD GRIMES
MISS LEGION
HAVE YOU SEEN THE LADY?
THE FUNNY LITTLE FELLOW
MUSICAL REVIEW EXTRAORDINARY
THE RUNAWAY BOY
THE DRAYMAN
BILL'S COURTSHIP
THE WOMAN WHO MARRIED AN OWL
MR. DOOLEY ON EXPERT TESTIMONY
LECTURES ON ASTRONOMY
Introductory
Lectures on Astronomy—Part I
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
END OF LECTURE FIRST
AT AUNTY'S HOUSE
WILLY AND THE LADY
THE ITINERANT TINKER
PEDANTIC PEDAGOGUE
THE STRIKE OF ONE
SIMON STARTS IN THE WORLD
A PIANO IN ARKANSAS
WHAR DEM SINFUL APPLES GROW
A NIGHT IN A ROCKING-CHAIR
ROLLO LEARNING TO PLAY
SPELL AND DEFINE:
MR. HARE TRIES TO GET A WIFE
THE CO-OPERATIVE HOUSEKEEPERS2
A COMMITTEE FROM KELLY'S
QUIT YO' WORRYIN'
HER "ANGEL" FATHER3
ESPECIALLY MEN
A LETTER FROM A SELF-MADE MERCHANT TO HIS SON
FAREWELL
MY RUTHERS
THE DUTIFUL MARINER4
MELINDA'S HUMOROUS STORY
ABOU BEN BUTLER
LATTER-DAY WARNINGS
IT PAYS TO BE HAPPY5
THE MOSQUITO
"TIDDLE-IDDLE-IDDLE-IDDLE-BUM! BUM!"
MY FIRST CIGAR
A BULLY BOAT AND A BRAG CAPTAIN
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"Mr. Gummage," said Mrs. Atmore, as she entered a certain drawing-school, at that time the most fashionable in Philadelphia, "I have brought you a new pupil, my daughter, Miss Marianne Atmore. Have you a vacancy?"
"Why, I can't say that I have," replied Mr. Gummage; "I never have vacancies."
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Our readers will understand, that at this period nearly all the porcelain used in America was of Chinese manufacture; very little of that elegant article having been, as yet, imported from France.
A wreath was selected from the portfolio that contained the engravings and drawings of flowers. It was decided that Marianne should first execute it the full size of the model (which was as large as nature), that she might immediately have a piece to frame; and that she was afterwards to make a smaller copy of it, as a border for all the articles of the china set; the middle to be ornamented with the letter A, in gold, surrounded by the rays of a golden star. Sprigs and tendrils of the flowers were to branch down from the border, so as nearly to reach the gilding in the middle. The large wreath that was intended to frame was to bear in its center the initials of Marianne Atmore, being the letters M.A. painted in shell gold.
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