. Wit, humor and pathos . LEFT OUTSIDE. WANTED ME TO GET INTO FRED. off with the boot-jack, and stood self up by the regis-ter to dry. Then wrote (hie) wrote more (hie).. XT—LI PlRK(hic)lNS, HOW ELI PERKINS LECTURED IN POTTS- VILLE.{Front an Article written by Mark Twain for Harpers Magazine) The Pottsvillians resolved to have a course of lect-ures last winter. Every town—that is, every town thatpretends to be any town at allnowadays—must branch out in acourse of lectures in the the chief citizens of Pottsvillegot together last Fall and decidedthat they would have a course ofsix lect
. Wit, humor and pathos . LEFT OUTSIDE. WANTED ME TO GET INTO FRED. off with the boot-jack, and stood self up by the regis-ter to dry. Then wrote (hie) wrote more (hie).. XT—LI PlRK(hic)lNS, HOW ELI PERKINS LECTURED IN POTTS- VILLE.{Front an Article written by Mark Twain for Harpers Magazine) The Pottsvillians resolved to have a course of lect-ures last winter. Every town—that is, every town thatpretends to be any town at allnowadays—must branch out in acourse of lectures in the the chief citizens of Pottsvillegot together last Fall and decidedthat they would have a course ofsix lectures. They also voted thatthey would have a course of lecturesthat would, to use a Pottsville ex-pression, knock the spots off of any course of lecturesever delivered in Pottsville. Then they wrote to theAmerican Literary Bureau at the Cooper Institute tosend them six lecturers, at $100 each. One man fortheology, one for brass-band rhetoric, one for oratory,one poet, one reader, and one humorist. The Bureaufinally made selections as follows:
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