Adjustable Lunatic Personifies City Crowds On St Patrick Day
An unnamed man calls himself an adjustable lunatic and befriends a narrator amid a St Patrick Day crowd. He guides the narrator to his bachelor room filled with oddities and art objects, reads a wild poem, and vanishes after handing a railroad ticket as a supposed card.
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St. Patrick’s Day
Washington and Illinois
Bates House
Sierras
Fowler
Mr. Quilp
Tom Scott
Wegg
Raphael
Ug Sail
LT O
Danville
Ilingis
York
Pennsylvania
Smith, Jones
Robinson
Indianapolis Journal
Peru
Waverly
Dunville
Vigers
George 8
Clossing
Married postwar deception unmasked in county town
In a small county seat town a dry goods clerk learns the buyer is the wife of a notorious local prevaricator. The woman apologizes, saying she married him just after the war when men were scarce, exposing a tale of postwar marriage to shield a fraudster.
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Yadlanapols
Why Not Speed Confession Quip Spurs Debate
The excerpt presents a quip during a car ride where one person accuses another of lying about speed. The reply jokes that the speedometer could have lied, sparking a humorous exchange over truth and measurement.
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John
Sister Quips At Family Sleep Talk
A fragment from a domestic scene shows Tom joking that a sister is a good child only when asleep. The sister retorts that she is not dead when she sleeps and adds she has bad dreams waking their mother.
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Tom
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