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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1897 Excerpt: ... TENTH CAST. NGLING on the brain is a harmless enough disease," commenced the Oracle, on the last evening the garrulous old fellow was fated to be amongst us at the fishing inn, "and might with advantage be used by the process of inoculation as a valuable preventive to more dangerous epidemics, such as a learned friend of mine is now suffering from. Last week, he was the unfortunate victim of a sudden and severe attack of geography on the brain, owing to a large terrestrial globe tumbling off a shelf in his study on to his North poll, and opening out the Arctic regions of his bald-head to a considerable and alarming extent. Of course the globe was shattered. We shifted a large portion of the Asiastic Continent out of the coal-box, and several South American republics were shaken out of the hearthrug, while it required a tedious and delicate operation to remove a big piece of the Pacific Ocean, which had firmly embedded itself in the professor's skull. Of course, if the professor had been an angler, this would never have occurred, for he would long ago have swopped his globe for a secondhand fly-book and a patent landing-net, which clearly proves what a great advantage it is to be an angler. "Talking of bald heads reminds me of a phrenological temperance lecturer, who came home so drunk one night, that he mistook the big plaster cast of a head he used to illustrate his lectures with for that of his wife, and threw his arms round its neck, and sobbed out words of penitence, and gin-andwatery tears on its cold, unsympathetic bosom. "' Shpeak but one for--hie--forgiving word! Why--hie--are you so cold--so cold?' he pleaded, and leaning a little too heavily on the figure, it came off the passage table, and rolled down the cellar steps with him, and in the cold gr...
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