The Bad Boy at Home, and His Experiences in Trying to Become an Editor: 1885

Victor, Metta Victoria Fuller · 1885

WHY HE CHEWSES A PERFESSHUN.--HYFALUTIN PROLOG, WITH SUM BARE POSSIBILITIES.--PROSPECTUS OF THE “DAILY BUSTER.” 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.…

Read free — original

Or read it translated: 日本語 · 中文 · हिन्दी · Español · العربية · Français · বাংলা · Português · Русский · Bahasa Indonesia · اردو · Deutsch · Kiswahili · 한국어

Lindy Books — 63,242 public-domain books that survived, free forever. No ads, no accounts, no tracking. Browse the library