Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. I sow all sorts of seeds, and get no great harvest from any of them. I’m cursed with susceptibility in every direction, and effective faculty in none. Mill on the Floss. A shower of paper flakes fell upon the amazed citizens of Yonkers like an unseasonable snow-storm, and every flake contained the announcement: TO-NIGHT! TO-NIGHT! TO-NIGHT! G HOUSE DINING-HALL Only chance to hear The Greatest of Modern Travelers PYTHAGORAS POD Who left New York without a dollar, to eat his way to San Francisco, within one year, WILL RELATE 100 HAIR-BREADTH ESCAPES Lassoing elephants in India; hunting chamois with sling-shots in the Alps; perils of an ostrich ride through the great African desert; and a kangaroo hop across Australia THE BIGGEST HOP ON RECORD. Gleanings from the Press.
His storio will make a hyena laugh. New York Bombast. Pye Pod is nothing more than a cake of sugar boiled down from the syrup of Lawrence Stearne, Dean Swift, Cervantes, Artemus Ward, and Josh Billings. Chicago Tornado. EVERT MAN AND WOMAN who has Thirty cents to throw away, should put one in a Yonkers Bank and Twenty-nine in the pocket of the donkey traveler. TICKETS, $0.29. TICKETS, TWENTY-NINE CENTS YONKEKS APPRAL row HK PRINT Even Macaroni lent a hoof, and was led by a boy through the streets, bearing a pasteboard sandwich which reached from ears to tail. The residents of Mistletoe Avenue gazed at the ridiculous spectacle, indignantly at first; but on the return trip they crowded in open door-ways and regarded the procession of beast and tagging boys, as much as to say, We must go and hear the donkey lecture. Macaroni had quite recovered; his exercise did him good. My lecture promised to be a huge success. The Tuesday Morning Squib and t…
