Identifier: hillsalbumofbiog00hill (find matches)
Title: Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Hill, Thomas E. (Thomas Edie), 1832-1915
Subjects: Biography Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: Chicago : Hill Standard Book Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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WHITFIELD as the Silly Boy WHITFIELD as the English Snell. i You dont know who I is! Im my mas pet—I is. Ma told me totell you, that if you wanted to play with me you must be careful notto scare me, cos ma thinks Ive got the heart-disease. When Vmhome I do as I please, and my ma doesnt whip me, neither; coswhen ma goes to lick me I have ^fits—I do. When I was a little babythe girls used to come down to our house and borrow me to play with.1 wish they would borrow me ?iow/ 1 goes to school every day, an Imalways to the head of my class in school, cos there aint no one butme in the class now. My brother John is older nor I be, an Johnuse to sleep with me (scratching); he dont sleep with me now, coshe saya Im nervous. Ive got to go home now; good-by. By Jove ! aw—I was out last evening, and had a weal clever time—I did I assure you, ha, ha, ha! A young friend of mine, by the nameof Arry, and Arry, he, ha, ha, ha—he was so bashful, ha, ha, ha, ha,that ha, ha, he, he, ha—that I

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