Artemus Ward (Charles Farrar Browne) : a biography and bibliography . sick, an they was runnin like the devil, 0! Chapter V It became daily more evident that a battle wasimminent. The Silvertoes, having encountered severalreverses, were now nerving themselves for a grand were coming with fire and sword and that sortof thing. Woshy-Boshy knew this, and yet he was cheek did not blanch. He was even cheerful, andlaughed perhaps more heartily than ever over the jokesand sparkling paragraphs in The National the Snakeheads did not question his ability tolead the
Artemus Ward (Charles Farrar Browne) : a biography and bibliography . sick, an they was runnin like the devil, 0! Chapter V It became daily more evident that a battle wasimminent. The Silvertoes, having encountered severalreverses, were now nerving themselves for a grand were coming with fire and sword and that sortof thing. Woshy-Boshy knew this, and yet he was cheek did not blanch. He was even cheerful, andlaughed perhaps more heartily than ever over the jokesand sparkling paragraphs in The National the Snakeheads did not question his ability tolead them in this crisis. They well knew that whenaroused he was as terrible as an army with banners,or a speckled jackass while in the act of kicking over apeanut-stand. He chawed more tobacco, however, than usual. [2S8] CONTRIBUTIONS One day he took a large chaw, and handing it toBoozy woozy, he said: Will you sustain me? I will, replied the gentle savage, biting off a largepiece. Take a pound of the best store tobacker, saidWoshy-Boshy, and soak it in molasses and rum,. and it makes as good tobacker as I want to use—thatis, if it is chemically examined by Professor Chittonand warranted to contain no deleterious enjoying themselves chawing tobacco forsome time they commenced planning for the approach-ing engagement. As we dont wish to become idiotsand gibber, with straw in our hair, we wont look at [289] ARTEMUS WARD those maps in The New York Herald any more. Letus souse a tom-cat in a pan of ink, draw him acrossa sheet of paper, and have a more intelligible map ofour own. So said Woshy-Boshy, and Boozywoozywas agreeable thereto. Woshy-Boshy had appointed the next day for thefoe to advance. The plans were all made. Alreadythe Snakehead troops were on their way to the field,three hundred masses and twenty-four barrels of themhaving gone round by Lake Superior, on board thesteamer Iron City, Capt. Ed. Turner. Woshy-Boshypurposed going by way of Portland, and had eng
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