Caricature Wit and Humor of a Nation in Picture, Song and Story (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Hamilton, Grant E.

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ISBN 10: 1330855817 ISBN 13: 9781330855812

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2019

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Excerpt from Caricature Wit and Humor of a Nation in Picture, Song and Story Mr. Hicket Retires By William John Barr Moses Mr. Hicket didnt look it. He was a rather stout, flabby, middle-aged man, with a low forehead, oily black hair, small, blue, bloodshot eyes, an angular nose, pufly lips, big ears, a complexion bluish white, mottled red and purple, and a mouthful of irregular, tobacco-stained teeth. He wore a pair of skeleton nose-glasses tied to a black cord, and his clothes, which had been flashy and loud in their time, were now wrinkled, misshapen and decorated with grease and dandruff. Mr. Hicket didnt look it, but he was a literary bureau, a financial bureau, a correspondence university, an astrologer, a matrimonial exchange, a handwriting expert, and a few other things of the same general character. Mr. Hicket began his days work by looking over the mail. Among the letters this morning there was one from a young lady in Arkansas, complaining that, although she had taken Mr. Hicket sten-dollar course in journalism, and his twenty-five-dollar course in shortstory writing, and his fifteen-dollar post-graduate course besides, her manuscripts came back from the magazines with the same promptness as of yore, and accompanied by the very same polite little slips, while the newspapers, as a rule, neither returned her manuscripts, nor the stamps that accompanied them, nor sent her checks in their stead. Mr. Hicket answered this letter with a printed slip, which announced that the Universal School of Journalism and Short Story Writing was in the hands of a receiver, and that the whereabouts of the former proprietors was unknown. The next letter contained a check for ten dollars from a simple-minded clergyman in Nebraska, the same being a payment in advance for the degree of doctor of philosophy, which the clergyman had earned by completing, in nine months, the three years course of reading outlined by the professors of the Hicket Correspondence University. Mr. Hicket

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Excerpt from Caricature Wit and Humor of a Nation in Picture, Song and Story

He was startled from his equanimity by the opening of the door behind him, and by a raucous, female voice, which inquired, Is this the Universal School of Journalism and Short Story Writing?

Mr. Hicket swung slowly round in his chair and con fronted the visitor. She was a strapping Amazon of a woman, with pale, reddish hair, a thin, hooked nose, thin lips and freckles.

This is merely the correspondence office, cautiously. I am merely the corresponding secretary.

Well, said the Amazon, striding nearer, I'm from Montana, and I want my money back.

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• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1330855817
• ISBN 13: 9781330855812
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 326