. Kings of the platform and pulpit ... : personal reminiscences and anecdotes of noted Americans. —the people of Australia will flock to see this tremendouscuriosity. It is a long voyage —as you know—from New York to Mel-bourne — and to my utter surprise the skeleton had no sooner got out tosea than he commenced eating in the most horrible manner. He had never been on the ocean before — and he said it agreed with him 1 thought so ! 1 never saw a man eat so much in my life. Beef— mutton — pork he swallowed them all like a shark and between meals he was often discovered behind barrels eating har
. Kings of the platform and pulpit ... : personal reminiscences and anecdotes of noted Americans. —the people of Australia will flock to see this tremendouscuriosity. It is a long voyage —as you know—from New York to Mel-bourne — and to my utter surprise the skeleton had no sooner got out tosea than he commenced eating in the most horrible manner. He had never been on the ocean before — and he said it agreed with him 1 thought so ! 1 never saw a man eat so much in my life. Beef— mutton — pork he swallowed them all like a shark and between meals he was often discovered behind barrels eating hard-boiled result was that, when we reached Melbourne, this infamous skeletonweighed 64 pounds more than I did! I thought I was ruined but I wasnt. I took him on to Califor-nia another very long sea voyage and when I got him to San Prancisco lexhibited him as a fat man. * Because r om. —(Spoken with a sigh.) It was a joke which always told. Artemusnever failed to use it in his Babes in the Wood lecture, and the ** Sixty Minutes in Africa/*as well as in the Mormon
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