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(New York Weekly edition - source: NIU Libraries) 
(New York Weekly edition - source: NIU Libraries)
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| Online Full Text: |
Northern Illinois University (New York Weekly edition)
Northern Illinois University (New York Weekly edition) |
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| Series: |
New York Weekly
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v. 31 no. 29
— page 8 New York Weekly — v. 59 no. 2 — pages 5-6 |
| Subject / Tag: |
Sketch |
| Author: |
Urner, Nathan D.
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| Dates: |
June 5, 1876 (New York Weekly edition) October 24, 1903 (New York Weekly edition) |
| First Sentence: |
His only advertisement was a coarsely painted canvas representing a black-and-tan boa contrictor [sic] in deadly conflict with a sky-blue crocodile, with a few yellow, purple and profusely spotted lions and tigers quarreling over a bone in the shelter of date trees and banana shrubs on the banks of the Rio Negro; his only divertisement, a melancholy tatterdemalion, in ragged unmentionables and a shocking bad hat of pre-Adamite suggestions, who divided his energies between working his jaws in discussion of negro-head and pounding frantically with both hands upon a bass drum as bug as a cart wheel; and his sole collection consisted of a sleepy-looking anaconda, whose scales and stripes appeared to be peeling off as if under the influence of some sort of ophidian mange, and a Mississippi alligator about three feet ling-though perhaps it also embrace a pert little parrot that was filming and unfilming its eye and snapping at the flies on a forked sapling just above the alligator's tank. (New York Weekly edition) |
Known Editions
New York Weekly edition (page 8 in New York Weekly, v. XXXI, no. 29, June 5, 1876)New York Weekly edition (pages 5-6 in New York Weekly, v. LIX, no. 2, October 24, 1903)
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