. Kings of the platform and pulpit ... : personal reminiscences and anecdotes of noted Americans. It was during his engagement on the Plaindealer that he wrote,dating from Indiana, his first communication—the first publishedletter following this sketch, signed Artemus Ward, a sobriquetpurely incidental, but borne with the u changed to an a byan American revolutionary general. It was here that Mr. Brownefirst became, in words, the possessor of a moral show, consistingof three moral bares, a kangaroo (a amoozing little rascal; twouldmake you larf yourself to death to see the little kuss jump and
. Kings of the platform and pulpit ... : personal reminiscences and anecdotes of noted Americans. It was during his engagement on the Plaindealer that he wrote,dating from Indiana, his first communication—the first publishedletter following this sketch, signed Artemus Ward, a sobriquetpurely incidental, but borne with the u changed to an a byan American revolutionary general. It was here that Mr. Brownefirst became, in words, the possessor of a moral show, consistingof three moral bares, a kangaroo (a amoozing little rascal; twouldmake you larf yourself to death to see the little kuss jump andsqueal), wax figures of G. Washington, &o., &c. Hundreds ofnewspapers copied this letter, and Charles Browne awoke onemorning to find himself famous. In the Plaindealer pfiSce, his companion, George Hoyt, writes: His desk was a rickety table which had been whittled and gasheduntil it looked as if it had been the victim of lightning. His chairwas a fit companion thereto—a wabbhng, unsteady affair, some-times with four and sometimes with three legs. But Browne sawneither the table,
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