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...Books for the opery" cried the boy near the theatre, Wednesday evening. "What opera?" I asked. "Why, Foost!" exclaimed the vender of operatic literature - Fact...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 1/6/1882 | See Source »

...slang - or, possibly, the authorities may deem it improper that "the shining cent" should be flipped from such an elevation as the second or third story. Whatever the trivial reason may be, certain it is, that although the College gates are closed but once in twenty years, yet the vender of melodies rarely ventures through them, conscious that in whatsoever remote corner he may establish himself, the venerable Ubiquity will invite him to depart thence. But in spite of the antipathy displayed for the organ-grinder by the powers that preside over our studies, the student himself will infinitely prefer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ORGAN-GRINDER. | 4/20/1877 | See Source »

...sufficient excuse for an absence from a college exercise. J. W. HARRIS, Sec. H. C." We think that an agent who would offer, about this time, "The Manual of Filling and Pulling," or "Every Man his own Dentist," would meet with as much success among students as the peripatetic vender of "The Science of the New Life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brevities. | 4/4/1873 | See Source »

...poor vender's table, a feminine form...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SEMPER EADEM. | 3/7/1873 | See Source »

...distressed by the lot of this pitiful vender...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SEMPER EADEM. | 3/7/1873 | See Source »

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