[Lands of the Slave and the Free by Henry A. Murray]@TWC D-Link bookLands of the Slave and the Free CHAPTER II 13/14
You can get them made as good as new again! GRATIFYING NEWS .-- We have just learned, with real pleasure, that the _seedy_ young man who sprained his back whilst trying to "raise the wind" is fast recovering, in consequence of judiciously applying the Mustang Liniment.
It is to be hoped he will soon be entirely cured, and that the next time he undertakes it, he will take an _upright_ position, and not adopt the _stooping_ posture.
This precaution, we have no doubt, will ensure success. This Liniment can be had of -- --. Even, marriage and death are not exempt from the fantastic advertising style. On Friday, June 10, by the Rev.Mr .-- --, after a severe and long-protracted courtship, which they bore with Christian fortitude and resignation, solely sustained and comforted, under all misgivings, by their sincere and confiding belief in the promise of a rich, and living inheritance in another state, Mr .-- -- to Miss -- --, all of this city. On April 4, of congestion of the brain, F---- E----, son of J---- and M---- C.D----, aged fourteen months. His remains were taken to G---- for interment yesterday. List! heard you that angel say, As he waved his little wing, "Come, Freddy, come away, Learn of me a song to sing!" The most gigantic advertiser--if the _New York Daily Sun_ is to be trusted for information--is Professor Holloway, so well known in this country.
According to that paper, he advertises in thirteen hundred papers in the United States, and has expended, in different parts of the world, the enormous sum of nearly half a million sterling, solely for that purpose. But, reader, there are more interesting objects to dwell upon than these.
If you will only "loaf" up and down Broadway on a fine afternoon, you will see some of the neatest feet, some of the prettiest hands, some of the brightest eyes, and some of the sweetest smiles the wildest beauty-dreamer ever beheld in his most rapturous visions; had they but good figures, they would excite envy on the Alamedas of Andalusia; in short, they are the veriest little ducks in the world, and dress with Parisian perfection.
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