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The Bad Boy At Home, by Walter T. Gray
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Title: The Bad Boy At Home And His Experiences In Trying To Become An Editor - 1885
Author: Walter T. Gray
Release Date: May 2, 2008 [EBook #25303]
Language: English
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THE BAD BOY AT HOME,
AND HIS EXPERIENCES IN TRYING TO BECOME AN EDITOR.
THE FUNNIEST BOOK OF THE AGE.
BY
Walter T. Gray
1885
CHAPTER I.
WHY HE CHEWSES A PERFESSHUN.--HYFALUTIN PROLOG, WITH SUM BARE POSSIBILITIES.--PROSPECTUS OF THE "DAILY BUSTER."
Mister Diry:
I've been intending ever since I got home from Yourope, to begin ritin' in a diry, but I ain't had no time, cos my chum Jimmy and me has been puttin' in our days havin' fun. I've got to give all that sorter thing up now, cos I've accepted a persisshun in a onherabel perfesshun, and wen I get to be a man, and reech the top rung of the ladder, I'm goin' to mak' New York howl.
Pa, he wanted me to go to skule, but I culdn't see it a tall, cos a feller wot's alwus goin' to skule don't never kno nothin' but base-ballin' and prize fitin' wen 'he gets thru. All them fellers wot rite in