Excerpt from Oldham's Amusing and Instructive Reader: A Course of Reading, Original and Selected, in Prose and Poetry, Wherein Wit, Humor, and Mirth Are Made the Means of Awakening Interest, and Imparting Instruction; For the Use of Schools and Academies
The Crocodile. Mrs. J. L. Gray, 160 John Alcohol, my Joe 162 Great Wits and Small Wits 168 What Brings Ruin - Sleeping in Church. 168 Way to Gain Reputation. - What makes one Rich. 168 Way to Crush Calumny. - Great and Small 164 The Happy Mam - Excessive Sorrow 164 What Man is to Mam - Go and Come.. 164 Set your mark High. 165 Silence sometimes the part of Wisdom. 165 Hood, 165.
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