The Progress in Shreveport, Louisiana

Fathetic Tales and Oddities From The Sewage Farm to London

A miscellany pulls from Forest and Stream and Westminster Gazette recounting a tale of a knife lost then found aboard a river, a blind rat on a sewer farm, a conscientious undertaker in the West, a costermonger in London who lights his pipe at a pub, and aphorisms on merit and character, with quips about marble and brass, and a Jersey guest’s remark on reed birds.