In this screamingly funny volume the reader follows with rapt attention
and hilarious delight, the mishaps, mortifications, confusions, and
agonizing mental and physical distresses of a self-conscious,
hypersensitive, appallingly bashful young man, in a succession of
astounding accidents, and ludicrous predicaments, that convulse the
reader with cyclonic laughter, causing him to hold both sides for fear
of exploding from an excess of uproarious merriment.
All records beaten as a fun-maker, rib-tickler, and laugh-provoker. This
marvellous volume of merriment proves melancholy an impostor, and grim
care a joke. With joyous gales of mirth it dissipates gloom and banishes
trouble.