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John Smith's Funny Adventures on a Crutch: The Remarkable Peregrinations of a One-Legged Soldier after the War

Richard Hooker Wilmer Wilmer

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Description:Tis volume was published in 1890 and tells of the remarkable peregrinations of a one-legged soldier after the war.From the Preface:It is verily more difficult to write a good pre- face for a book than to write the book itself. We don't mind telling the reader, very confiden- tially, that this is not, by any means, our first effort at a preface for this work : and we earn- estly hope that the public will not pronounce this ninth one so stupid as we deemed the eight preceding ones that we tore up. It will be perceived that our hero bears the historic name of John Smith. Original old John Smith, the Virginia settler, met with many adventures — some of them funny and others not so funny — among the latter was the affair with Miss Pocahontas and her stern old parent : and we claim, for our own John Smith, as many adventures as his illustrious namesake — some of them quite as funny and others funnier. Nothing in this narrative of real incidents is at all calculated to reflect on the excellent character of Mr. Smith : and this is because we esteem him very highly and not from any dread of the law ; for John Smith is so multitudinous, that one could handle the name with impunity, and not incur any risk of prosecution for libeL What would a court say to an action against a writer for libeling John Smith, yeoman ! — espe- cially when the writer should plead that he never meant that John Smith, but quite another, unknown to the court. There are those who will shrewdly guess that the hero of the narrative represents the author himself, the chief grounds for such inference being a striking similarity in the number of nether limbs. That, however, should scarcely be taken as conclusive; for, since "this cruel war is over," there are nearly as many one- legged men in the country as there are John Smiths ! Philadelphia, January, 1869We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with John Smith's Funny Adventures on a Crutch: The Remarkable Peregrinations of a One-Legged Soldier after the War. To get started finding John Smith's Funny Adventures on a Crutch: The Remarkable Peregrinations of a One-Legged Soldier after the War, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Tis volume was published in 1890 and tells of the remarkable peregrinations of a one-legged soldier after the war.From the Preface:It is verily more difficult to write a good pre- face for a book than to write the book itself. We don't mind telling the reader, very confiden- tially, that this is not, by any means, our first effort at a preface for this work : and we earn- estly hope that the public will not pronounce this ninth one so stupid as we deemed the eight preceding ones that we tore up. It will be perceived that our hero bears the historic name of John Smith. Original old John Smith, the Virginia settler, met with many adventures — some of them funny and others not so funny — among the latter was the affair with Miss Pocahontas and her stern old parent : and we claim, for our own John Smith, as many adventures as his illustrious namesake — some of them quite as funny and others funnier. Nothing in this narrative of real incidents is at all calculated to reflect on the excellent character of Mr. Smith : and this is because we esteem him very highly and not from any dread of the law ; for John Smith is so multitudinous, that one could handle the name with impunity, and not incur any risk of prosecution for libeL What would a court say to an action against a writer for libeling John Smith, yeoman ! — espe- cially when the writer should plead that he never meant that John Smith, but quite another, unknown to the court. There are those who will shrewdly guess that the hero of the narrative represents the author himself, the chief grounds for such inference being a striking similarity in the number of nether limbs. That, however, should scarcely be taken as conclusive; for, since "this cruel war is over," there are nearly as many one- legged men in the country as there are John Smiths ! Philadelphia, January, 1869We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with John Smith's Funny Adventures on a Crutch: The Remarkable Peregrinations of a One-Legged Soldier after the War. To get started finding John Smith's Funny Adventures on a Crutch: The Remarkable Peregrinations of a One-Legged Soldier after the War, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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