Item - Turnover's Sleigh-Ride

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Online Full Text:	Stanford Digital Repository
Series:	New York Weekly — v. 22 no. 20 — page 8
Subject / Tag:	Sketch
Part of:	New York Weekly, v. XXII, no. 20, April 4, 1867 (Issue)
Author:	Way, W. Scott
Date:	April 4, 1867
First Sentence:	Mr. John J. Turnover had first exercised his lungs by crying, taken the first dose of paregoric cut his first tooth, learned to discard the letter "r" as something unnecessary to polite and refined language, went to school seven years, and passed the remainder of his time-fourteen years-how, we are unable to say-in the city of New York;