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(Good News edition - source: NIU Libraries)
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| Online Full Text: |
Northern Illinois University (Good News edition)
(Note: The gutter for some pages are torn, with the fourteenth and fifteenth pages tearing into the text.) Stanford Digital Repository (New York Weekly edition) |
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| Series: |
Good News
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v. 7 no. 177
— pages 2819-2820 New York Weekly — v. 23 no. 13 — page 2 |
| Subject / Tag: |
Sketch |
| Author: |
Granger, Leon
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| Dates: |
February 13, 1868 (New York Weekly edition) September 23, 1893 (Good News edition) |
| First Sentence: |
In the good old days, which antiquated gamblers recall with a sigh, when card-playing, with all its concomitant cheating, was the great source of amusement on all the "floating palaces" of the North and West, the steamer Swallow, the pride of the Mississippi, as her commander termed her, was making one of her upward trips from New Orleans to St. Louis. (New York Weekly edition) In the good old days, which antiquated gamblers recall with a sigh, when card-playing, with all its concomitant cheating, was the great source of amusement on all the "floating palaces" of the North and West, the steamer Swallow, the pride of the Mississippi, as her commander termed her, was making one of her upward trips from New Orleans. (Good News edition) |
| Last Sentence: |
He paid for all the liquor the passengers chose to drink; and all the way up the river the regular toast was, "The Wrong Customer!" (Good News edition) |
Known Editions
New York Weekly edition (page 2 in New York Weekly, v. XXIII, no. 13, February 13, 1868)Good News edition (pages 2819-2820 in Good News, v. 7, no. 177, September 23, 1893)
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