'The Blundertown Journal' (also high authority) remarks: '_This Book is an emanation from the culminating mind of glorious genius!_' '_Nothing like it has been produced in this century!_' '_It has all the fine elements of Dickens' Novels, without any of their numerous defects!_' Our first edition (20,000 copies) is exhausted, and we beg our friends to have patience for a few days. WANTED, 4,000 Agents to sell the above work!! PRINTEM & SELLEM, _Publishers_." "Four thousand agents!" quoth Barry, looking over my shoulder; "I rather think it would take _forty_ thousand to sell an edition of 'DAISY!'" I laughed at my irate friend, and, igniting a fresh regalia, crossed my feet on the mantel-piece, and remarked, composedly, "Now for the Critics!" FINIS. ERRATUM. The Greek of my book-making genius, Ralph ---- Esq., seems decidedly rusty. He has evidently given his lexicon an icy shoulder. Will the intellectual and erudite reader substitute _kyrie eleyson_ for _kyrie elyson_ on page 131? FOOTNOTES: [A] Mr. Barescythe, with his characteristic word-catching spirit, wishes to know if grapes and cherries are ripe at one and the same time in New-England. [B] Barescythe says, that the wrong verb used in this paragraph is what editors call "a typographical error." +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Transcriber's Note. | | | | Italics have been indicated in this text version by underscores | | | | The following changes have been carried out:-- | | | | Page 22 comma changed to period. | | 'gently, gently. Sleep,' | | | | Page 60. 'distroted' to 'distorted' | | 'highly polished, distorted knocker' | | | | 'kided' to 'kidded' | | 'white-kidded, be-ruffled gallants' | | | | Incorrectly positioned parenthesis moved from before | | the phrase 'the Museum opposite' to what appears to | | be a more logical position at the begining of the phrase | | 'if you would only' |