Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 37, December 10, 1870 by Various
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page 48 of 76 (63%)
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Give 'er up?
Because it ruins any _minister's_ reputation, who goes for it. Hopin that when you shovel off your mortil coil, that your mantle may not pass out of the family, and as time flies on with greased wings, you may make the family name _sound_ by bein able to Mark Twain in your family record, I drop the goose feather. Ewers, parentally, HIRAM GREEN, ESQ., Lait Gustise of the Peece. * * * * * A SURE WAY OF DOING IT. Seekers after notoriety must often be at their wits' end for some new sensation with which to advertise themselves. Mr. TWAIN, for instance, having gone through Fenianism and France, seems to have collapsed for the present; and here now comes Mr. WEMYSS JOBSON, who subsided into oblivion years ago, but has just emerged again into the light of _The Sun_. The efforts of both these gentlemen to keep themselves prominently before the public, however, are very inadequate and feeble. They should suffer more and be stronger. Let TRAIN do a bold stroke of business by declaring himself the perpetrator of the latest mysterious murder, and it might be the making of the exhumed JOBSON to revive a fossilized memory, and confess himself to be the criminal who delivered the fatal |
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