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The Story of a Doctor's Telephone—Told by His WifeEllen M. Firebaugh The Story of a Doctor's Telephone—Told by His Wife TO THE READER The telephone has revolutionized the doctor's life.In the old days when a horse's galloping hoofs were heard people looked out of their windows and wondered if tha...

The Roycroft Dictionary, Concocted by Ali Baba and the Bunch on Rainy Days.Elbert Hubbard The Roycroft Dictionary Concocted by Ali Baba and the Bunch on Rainy Days The Roycroft Dictionary ADVERTISING: The education of the public as to who you are, where you are, and what you have to offer in way ...

Gullible's Travels, Etc.Lardner Ring Gullible's Travels, Etc CARMEN We was playin' rummy over to Hatch's, and Hatch must of fell in a bed of four-leaf clovers on his way home the night before, because he plays rummy like he does everything else; but this night I refer to you couldn't beat him, an...

Familiar FacesGraham Harry Familiar Faces THE CRY OF THE PUBLISHER O my Author, do you hear the Autumn calling?Does its message fail to reach you in your den,Where the ink that once so sluggishly was crawlingCourses swiftly through your stylographic pen?'Tis the season when the editor grows activ...

Lighter Moments from the Notebook of Bishop Walsham HowHow William Walsham Lighter Moments from the Notebook of Bishop Walsham How PREFACE On Christmas Day, 1891, my father presented me with his collection of "Ecclesiastical Jottings," as he called them, having previously had them handsomely boun...

Pencil Sketches: or, Outlines of Character and MannersLeslie Eliza Pencil Sketches; or, Outlines of Character and Manners MRS. WASHINGTON POTTS "The course of parties never does run smooth." – Shakspeare. Bromley Cheston, an officer in the United States navy, had just returned from a three years'...

Vice Versa: or, A Lesson to FathersAnstey F. Vice Versa; or, A Lesson to Fathers PREFACE There is an old story of a punctiliously polite Greek, who, while performing the funeral of an infant daughter, felt bound to make his excuses to the spectators for "bringing out such a ridiculously small cor...

The Cynic's Word BookBierce Ambrose The Cynic's Word Book PREFACE With reference to certain actual and possible questions of priority and originality, it may be explained that this Word Book was begun in the San Francisco "Wasp" in the year 1881, and has been continued, in a desultory way, in sev...

The Bab BalladsW. S. Gilbert The Bab Ballads Captain Reece Of all the ships upon the blue,No ship contained a better crewThan that of worthy CAPTAIN REECE,Commanding of The Mantelpiece. He was adored by all his men,For worthy CAPTAIN REECE, R.N.,Did all that lay within him toPromote the comfort o...

The Witches of New YorkQ. K. Philander Doesticks The Witches of New York Preface What the Witches of New York City personally told me, Doesticks, you will find written in this volume, without the slightest exaggeration or perversion. I set out now with no intention of misrepresenting anything tha...