Eye openers [electronic resource]: good things, immensely funny sayings and stories that will bring a smile upon the gruffest countenance . XVI. AN EPIDEMIC ^\NE calamity to which the death of Mr.^-^ Dickens dooms this country has notawakened the concern to which its gravityentitles it. We refer to the fact that thenation is to be lectured to death and read todeath all next winter by Tom, Dick, andHarry, with poor lamented Dickens for a pre-text. All the vagabonds who can spell willafflict the people with readings from Pick-wick and Copperfield, and all the insignificantswho have been ennobled
Eye openers [electronic resource]: good things, immensely funny sayings and stories that will bring a smile upon the gruffest countenance . XVI. AN EPIDEMIC ^\NE calamity to which the death of Mr.^-^ Dickens dooms this country has notawakened the concern to which its gravityentitles it. We refer to the fact that thenation is to be lectured to death and read todeath all next winter by Tom, Dick, andHarry, with poor lamented Dickens for a pre-text. All the vagabonds who can spell willafflict the people with readings from Pick-wick and Copperfield, and all the insignificantswho have been ennobled by the notice of thegreat novelist, or transfigured by his smile,will make a marketable commodity of it now,and turn the sacred reminiscence to the prac-tical use of procuring bread and butter. Thelecture rostrums will fairly swarm with thesofortunates. Already the signs of it are pereptible. Behold how the unclean creatures*e wending toward the dead lion, and to the feast— Eeminiscencea of Dickens. A John Smith, who heard him read eight times 94 MARK TWAIN. Remembrances of Charles Dickens. Alecture. By John
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