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Scrapbook Tales of Travel and Wit Through the Ages
A traveling man stranded in a western town near a street fair finds no amusements until a rag doll throwing contest yields only misses. He later writes home lamenting missing his children. The piece fuses morals from Pope and assorted anecdotes about vanity, fate, and clever misdirections, including tales of an undertaker, a missed train, a church advertisement, and a telephone boast.
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Bundy
Rag Dolla
Legust
Saturday Evening Post