Talks By George Thatcher, The Celebrated Minstrel - Containing His Monologues, Parodies, Songs, Sketches, Poems, Jokes, Etc. (1898) (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: and the concussiou of all those pounds coming down so unexpectedly on the venerable old chair caused a demolition. The old chair went into splinters, and, lo and behold, hid in its own concealment, in the bottom of the chair was two hundred thousand dollars; and he went to his brother, the other son, who wouldn't give him anything, and gave him the same, and said, " Wouldn't you like to have the old armchair ?" Then he went to Congress, and nobody has ever heard of him since. MY SON JOHN Talk about boys I've got one, and for downright stupidity he certainly is beyond anything I ever saw in all my life. The word stupid is not strong enough, it does not half express it. He does some of the most outlandish things I ever heard tell of. Now, for an example. My wife sent him to the butcher's one day last week to see if he had pig's feet. He came back and told his mother he couldn't tell, the butcher had his shoes on. Stupid and lazy Well, the fact is he was born tired. Why when we want to get him up early in the morning we have to wake him up two hours before he goes to bed. He goes to Sunday-school, and what do you think he said last Sunday ? You see, the teacher always asks the same questions every Sunday. She says to the first boy, " Who made you ?" Then the little boy replies, "The Lord made me." Then she asks the next boy?that's my boy, he's No. 2?" Who was the first man ?" And he says, "Adam," and so on down to the foot of the class. Well, last Sunday the first boy was absent, so that made my boy first, and the teacher began with " Who made you ?" My boy said, "Adam." Then the teacher corrected him and said, " No, no, the Lordmade you." Then my boy said, " No, sir; the little boy the Lord made didn't come today." Oh he's a great boy, and to add to his othe...

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Imprint:	Kessinger Publishing Co
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	2010
First published:	2010
Authors:	George Thatcher
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 8mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	148
ISBN-13:	978-1-120-86942-5
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Collections & anthologies of various literary forms
LSN:	1-120-86942-0
Barcode:	9781120869425

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