With original illustrations by JOHN C. FROHN
BOSTON, MASS.
HENRY A. DICKERMAN & SON.
Publishers 1900.
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It won’t make a horse laugh because it wasn’t written for horses:--but
any person who can read this book through without laughing must have an
impediment in his smilax.
New copyright edition; gilt edge, bound in art cloth, printed on
Bengalore book paper from English type, illustrated with ninety-four of
the most comical pen and ink “skits” ever seen. Original poster cover
in two colors, that will appeal to your bump of humor. Price 50 cents
at your dealers, or of the publishers
Henry A. Dickerman & Son
55 Franklin Street, Boston, Mass.
_N. B.--A handsome POSTER free with every copy._
A SOFT WORD
FROM
Robert J. Burdette
REGARDING
“What Happened to Wigglesworth”
❦
Abraham Lincoln once said, “God must love plain people, because he made
so many of them.” Then humor must be heaven born, because it glorifies
the commonplace.
Mr. Fuller’s humor has no need of the finger post of an introduction.
His manner bears no stamp save that of his own personality. His
characters introduce themselves as old friends, who try to surprise us
by thinly disguised voices, by the change of a beard, or the innocent
assumption of ignorance of our identity. The people concerning whom Mr.
Fuller writes in these chronicles, he would have us believe dwell in
Maine. But I knew them in Illinois; you have them in New York; they are
your neighbors in California. We recognize them as old friends. Some
busy years have separated us; a multitude of cares have swarmed into
our lives and driven them out of our thought, and grateful are we that
this apostle of humor suddenly turns the limelight of his humor upon
the stage of this old work-a-day world of ours, revealing the little
group of actors to our gaze saying, “Did you ever see these people
before?” And our ready, happy looks of glad and instant recognition
contradict our “No we never did” that goes with the extended hand of
welcome greeting. Into his book, Mr. Fuller has put the laughter of our
own lives. Our highest and most grateful appreciation of what he has
done, will be to take the laughter of his book into our own hearts.