 | 1881 - 1008 páginas
...perhaps a hundred miles from a human habitation, he caused bills to be posted, containing these words : " A Lecture will be delivered here, in a sweet voice,...by Artemus Ward, the Wild Humorist of the Plains." It will appear from these stories how perfect was his confidence in his jokes. He said to some negro... | |
 | Ehrman Syme Nadal - 1882 - 316 páginas
...perhaps a hundred miles from a human habitation, he caused bills to be posted, containing these words : " A Lecture will be delivered here, in a sweet voice, by Artemus Ward, the Wild Humourist of the Plains." Then also he had great confidence in his jokes. For instance, he said to... | |
 | Artemus Ward - 1912 - 308 páginas
...stations, though some of them were miles from any other human habitation. The bills contained these words: "A Lecture will be delivered here, in a sweet voice,...by Artemus Ward, the Wild Humorist of the Plains." Artemus had no conception of the value of money, and was loose and careless in his business habits.... | |
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A Lecture will be delivered here, in a sweet voice, by Artemus Ward, the Wild Humorist of the Plains." It will appear from these stories how perfect was his confidence in his jokes. He said to some negro minstrels, with whom he spent an hour after one... 