American wit and humor
The first book I remember (excepting several Dickens novels, flotsam of an abandoned attic library) is a cheap, ill-favored, coarsely printed volume of “Bill” Nye’s sketches, elegantly entitled _Baled Hay_. I discovered it in a corner of the village postoffice, where there wer...
The first book I remember (excepting several Dickens novels, flotsam of an abandoned attic library) is a cheap, ill-favored, coarsely printed volume of “Bill” Nye’s sketches, el...
2. Part 2A few weeks later he had saved one hundred and fifty dollars in this way. The queen then went at twilight and pawned a large breast-pin, and, although her chest was very sensiti...
3. Part 3In seeking to combine the melancholy beauty of Hamlet’s deep and earnest pathos with the gentle humor of “A Hole in the Ground,” Mr. O’Connor evidently corked himself, as we say...
4. Part 4William Marcy Tweed was the contractor of Ludlow Street Jail and here also he died. He was the son of a poor chairmaker and was born April 3, 1823. From the chair business in 18...