Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 42122-h.htm or 42122-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/42122/42122-h/42122-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/42122/42122-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Villanova University Digital Library. See http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Americana/Dime%20Novel/Street%20and%20Smith/StreetandSmith-07242dbb-24fe-42df-98f4-2b994c86e60a.xml Transcriber's note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). Text enclosed by equal signs is in bold face (=bold=). S. & S. Humor Library No. 2--_Illustrated_--Price, 25 Cents "ATCHOO!" Sneezes from a Hilarious Vaudevillian [Illustration] by GEORGE NIBLO Street & Smith - Publishers - New York ATCHOO! Sneezes from a Hilarious Vaudevillian by GEORGE NIBLO [Illustration: S AND S NOVELS STREET & SMITH - NEW YORK] New York Street & Smith, Publishers 238 William Street Copyright, 1903 By Street & Smith Atchoo! ATCHOO! Fellow citizens!--I beg pardon, I mean ladies and gentlemen! You see I've just come from a political meeting, and that sort of thing gets on your nerves. I went to hear my friend Isaacstein talk. His subject was "Why should the Jew have to work?" [Illustration] They did a lot of whitewashing at that meeting. I suppose it's all right. Of course you can't make a new fence with a pail of whitewash, but you can cover up the mothholes. But we mustn't be too hard on the politicians. If it wasn't for politics a good many fellows that are too lazy to earn a living with their hands would be paupers. But some of 'em are all right. There's Isaacstein for instance. As good a man as ever sauntered down Hester Street. He joined the noble army of grafters two years ago and worked so hard at his profession that he got appendicitis. A friend of Isaacstein's met another acquaintance of his in Hester Street and asked: "Haf you heard aboudt Isaacstein?" "No. Vat iss it?" "He vas sick. They take him by der hospital, and vat you tink they do to him?" "Vell. Vell. Vat iss it?" [Illustration] "They put him in a room all by himself und take his appendix away from him." "Na! Na! Na! Vat a pity, ain't it, he didn't have it in his wife's name?" Why, I was taken sick myself lately--such thing will happen even in the best regulated families, you know. The doctor came and said that he Would make another man of me. "All right," said I, "and if you will, Just send that other man your bill." While I was on my way here there was a fire down in one of those thickly populated streets where twenty families and more live, like sardines, in a tenement. The fire engine came booming along, and as usual created tremendous excitement. [Illustration]