The Complete Works of Artemus Ward — Part 2: War by Artemus Ward
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2.9. Touching Letter from a Gory Member Of The Home Guard
2.10. In Canada. 2.11. The Noble Red Man. 2.12. Artemus Ward in Richmond. 2.13. Artemus Ward to the Prince of Wales. PART II. WAR. 2.1. THE SHOW IS CONFISCATED. You hav perhaps wondered wharebouts I was for these many dase gone and past. Perchans you sposed I'd gone to the Tomb of the Cappylets, tho I don't know what those is. It's a popler noospaper frase. Listen to my tail, and be silent that ye may here I've been among the Seseshers, a earnin my daily peck by my legitimit perfeshun, and havn't had no time to weeld my facile quill for "the Grate Komick paper," if you'll allow me to kote from your troothful advertisement. My success was skaly, and I likewise had a narrer scape of my life. If what I've bin threw is "Suthren hosspitality," 'bout which we've hearn so much, then I feel bound to obsarve that |
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