18 May 1869
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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1869
Page
1
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A collage of quips and sketches ranging from funeral expense musings to wordplay on literacy and women. The excerpts include witty exchanges about handwriting, a convict singing, a nursery as a bawl room, and a Philadelphia baker disciplining his son with a hoop pole, all rendered in a playful, period voice.
A narrator meeting a beautiful young woman on a passenger train becomes smitten as they share confidences and flirtations. A detective reveals the woman, Nancy Dacors, is a fashionable pickpocket, having stolen his watch and purse. The story ends with a cautionary moral about deception.
A long fragment sketches a California night time hold up with a smallpox patient and a newspaper man, then pivots to a string of satirical quips about poets and authors claiming they never knew the places or things they wrote about, exposing vanity and myth in a homely tone.
Children along the Cape of Good Hope collect bright pebbles they believe are diamonds. Dealers pay little for the loot to lure children into gathering and selling the stones at high profits.
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