. Kings of the platform and pulpit ... : personal reminiscences and anecdotes of noted Americans. liE3 KINGS OF THE PLATFORM AND generally subjected. He always kept his temper; and his amusingjokes are even now related by the residents of Skowhegan. In the spring after his fifteenth birthday, Charles Browne badefarewell to the Skowhegan Clarion; and we next hear of him in theoflace of the Carpet-Bag, edited by B. P. Shillaber ( Mrs. Parting-ton). In these early years young Browne used to set up articlesfrom the pens of Charles G. Halpine ( Miles OKeilly) and JohnG. Saxe, the poet. Her


. Kings of the platform and pulpit ... : personal reminiscences and anecdotes of noted Americans. liE3 KINGS OF THE PLATFORM AND generally subjected. He always kept his temper; and his amusingjokes are even now related by the residents of Skowhegan. In the spring after his fifteenth birthday, Charles Browne badefarewell to the Skowhegan Clarion; and we next hear of him in theoflace of the Carpet-Bag, edited by B. P. Shillaber ( Mrs. Parting-ton). In these early years young Browne used to set up articlesfrom the pens of Charles G. Halpine ( Miles OKeilly) and JohnG. Saxe, the poet. Here he wrote his first contribution in a dis-


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