The Edward T. LeBlanc Memorial Dime Novel Bibliography

Item - Doesticks' Letters: Doesticks Opens a "Doesticks' Intelligence Office"

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Online Full Text: Northern Illinois University
Series: New York Weekly v. 25 no. 20 — page 8
Subject / Tag: Sketch
Part of: New York Weekly, v. XXV, no. 20, March 31, 1870 (Issue)
Author: Doesticks, Q. K. Philander, 1831-1875
Date: March 31, 1870
First Sentence: A few days ago I met in Spruce street a splendid suit of broadcloth clothes, a new silk hat, a pair of patent leather boots, a couple of yellow dog-skin gloves, and all the usual outfit of the modern dandy, which said expensive articles were, to my intense amazement, at that time disguising the person of a chap I had seen, only three months before, with clothes not decent to be seen in the street.
Last Sentence: As for their honesty not the slightest imputation can, that I see, rest on them, or on.

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