This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ...we can stand it to let them furnish the money, although if any of us ever come out to run for Congress or Governor think how it would hurt us to have the papers print the records showin' we'd been in jail. But the worst of it is that if there was any hangin' to be done they'd want us to go ahead and be the victims; and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ...we can stand it to let them furnish the money, although if any of us ever come out to run for Congress or Governor think how it would hurt us to have the papers print the records showin' we'd been in jail. But the worst of it is that if there was any hangin' to be done they'd want us to go ahead and be the victims; and I'm blamed if I'll do that for anybody, even if they have a sixty-horse-power machine or offer to raise my salary for it.' "Several of the boys wanted it put in the constitution of the club that we wouldn't stand for arrests where the bosses was to blame, but I come out strong on the other side, and got them to let it drop. It's all right for fellers that ain't chawfin' for ladies as beautiful as Juliet to kick, and anyway when her and me are bone of one bone and flesh of one flesh, as my old school-master, Albert Springer, used to say, it'll come in handy for us to have a chawfer who's willin' to get scolded by the Judge as long as we pay the costs. "My motto is: 'Don't ever be too rough on society; for you never can tell how soon you'll be in society yourself.'" IX "One time," said Charles, "I was at a circus where they had what they called a happy family. There was a bear and a wolf and a pig and a dog or two, and I don't know but a porkypine, all in one cage. "I s'pose it took a smart man to train all them animals to dwell in peace and harminosity together; but that wasn't anything to what it would be to fix it so one man and two women that loved him could eat at the same table and have a taste for their meals. "The other day Mrs. Thurlow thought it would be a good thing to practise a little for our big automobile trip by takin' about a two days' run through the country. I was in hopes when she spok...
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First edition in book form (hardback). 12mo (18cm by 12cm), 189pp. Frontispiece, text illustrations. Original decorated brown cloth. The binding is dusty, there is some scattered foxing of the contents, and there is an ownership label to the front free endpaper. Overall, this copy is in good condition.