Half-Hours with Great Story-Tellers

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Various. Half-Hours with Great Story-Tellers

GREY DOLPHIN

MOSES, THE SASSY; OR, THE DISGUISED DUKE

CHAPTER I. ELIZY

CHAPTER II. WAS MOSES OF NOBLE BIRTH?

CHAPTER III. THE PIRUT FOILED

CHAPTER IV. THE WANDERER'S RETURN

MR. COLUMBUS CORIANDER'S GORILLA

THE FATE OF YOUNG CHUBB

BOOTS AT THE HOLLY-TREE INN

THE ENTHUSIAST IN ANATOMY

"THE LIGHT PRINCESS"

CHAPTER I. WHAT! NO CHILDREN?

CHAPTER II. WON'T I, JUST?

CHAPTER III. SHE CAN'T BE OURS

CHAPTER IV. WHERE IS SHE

CHAPTER V. WHAT IS TO BE DONE

CHAPTER VI. SHE LAUGHS TOO MUCH

CHAPTER VII. TRY METAPHYSICS

CHAPTER VIII. TRY A DROP OF WATER

CHAPTER IX. PUT ME IN AGAIN

CHAPTER X. LOOK AT THE MOON

CHAPTER XI. HISS!

CHAPTER XII. WHERE IS THE PRINCE?

CHAPTER XIII. HERE I AM

CHAPTER XIV. THIS IS VERY KIND OF YOU

CHAPTER XV. LOOK AT THE RAIN!

THE LEGEND OF THE LITTLE WEAVER

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My story opens in the classic presinks of Bostin. In the parler of the bloated aristocratic mansion on Bacon street sits a luvly young lady, whose hair is cuvered ore with the frosts of between 17 Summers. She had just sot down to the piany, and is warblin the popler ballad called "Smells of the Notion," in which she tells how with pensiv thought, she wandered by a C beat shore. The son is settin in its horizon, and its gorjus light pores in a golden meller flud through the winders, and makes the young lady twice as beautiful nor what she was before, which is onnecessary. She is magnificently dressed up in a Berage basque, with poplin trimmins, More Antique, Ball Morals and 3 ply carpeting. Also, considerable guaze. Her dress contains 16 flounders and her shoes is red morocker, with gold spangles onto them. Presently she jumps up with a wild snort, and pressin her hands to her brow, she exclaims, "Methinks I see a voice!"

A noble youth of 27 summers enters. He is attired in a red shirt and black trowis, which last air turned up over his boots; his hat, which is a plug, being cockt onto one side of his classiual hed. In sooth, he was a heroic lookin person, with a fine shape. Grease, in its barmiest days near projuced a more hefty cavileer. Gazin upon him admirinly for a spell, Elizy (for that was her name) organized herself into a tabloo, and stated as follers:

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"I hev thought of this thing afore," said Moses abstractedly. "If it is so, then thus it must be! 2 B or not 2 B! Which? Sow, sow! But enuff. O life! life!—you're too many for me!" He tore out some of his pretty yeller hair, stampt on the floor several times, and was gone.

Sixteen long and weary years has elapst since the seen narrated in the last chapter took place. A noble ship, the Sary Jane, is a-sailin from France to Ameriky via the Wabash Canal. The pirut ship is in hot pursoot of the Sary. The pirut capting isn't a man of much principle, and intends to kill all the people on bored the Sary and confiscate the walleables. The capting of the S. J. is on the pint of givin in, when a fine lookin feller in russet boots and a buffalo overcoat rushes forored and obsarves:

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