The Edward T. LeBlanc Memorial Dime Novel Bibliography

Item - Doesticks' Letters: Doesticks Reflects on Yankee Love of Aristocratic and Other Titles

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Online Full Text: Northern Illinois University (Note: Section cut out of pages 5 and 6.)
Series: New York Weekly v. 25 no. 2 — page 4
Subject / Tag: Sketch
Part of: New York Weekly, v. XXV, no. 2, November 25, 1869 (Issue)
Author: Doesticks, Q. K. Philander, 1831-1875
Date: November 25, 1869
First Sentence: In every country in the world other than our own the Star Spangled America, of which we all are disposed to brag so much-stars, and Garters, and Epaulets, and all sorts of gay and fancy uniforms, have some certain social significance; they really mean something; they denote that the man who wears them has, by some signal act of official bravery in the battle-field, or by special excellence in the sphere of social life, entitled himself to such peculiar recognition by his sovereign.

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