Category: Humour
The following pages were written during leisure hours of the last six or eight weeks, of which “the times” have thrown rather too many upon the writer’s hands; and the statement of this fact, I conceive to be a tacit admission, that such hours might have been better employed.
Among the many schemes of finance that have disgraced our country, and been fruitful sources of peculation, deserving the severe censure of justice, and the ridicule of wit, the...
6. CHAPTER IV.SHOWING HOW STOCKS ARE BOUGHT AND SOLD—HOW BROKERS GET OUT OF A BAD SPECULATION—HOW MONEY IS SOMETIMES MADE BY DOING A LOSING BUSINESS—HOW DISCOUNTS ARE MADE AND OBTAINED, &C. &C.
8. CHAPTER VI.A panic is one of those things in nature, which have existence without entity—something which may be felt, but can neither be traced nor followed. It has the power of motion and...
4. CHAPTER II.It is a pleasure which comes gratefully home to the heart, when contemplating the picture of human life, in whatever grade of society or condition we view it, amongst the multit...
7. CHAPTER V.On meeting my friend again to day, I was as much amused as ever with his humor, in describing a public defaulter. And as he makes his own reflections upon it, I will without far...
3. CHAPTER I.As the practice of some readers is to begin in the middle and read a book backwards, I respectfully request those who may open here, to begin at the beginning and read the prefa...
2. CHAPTER VI.—A Panic.The following pages were written during leisure hours of the last six or eight weeks, of which “the times” have thrown rather too many upon the writer’s hands; and the statement...
1. CHAPTER IV.—How Stocks are bought and sold—How Brokers get