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This 164 page book in wraps
contains numerous short vignettes. Some are humorous (like Peck's
contribution) while others are moralistic. Peck's 3.5 page blurb comes
from Peck's Bad Boy and His Pa Chapter 19 His Pa is "Nishiated". It
originally appeared in Peck's Sun.
This book was published by the Excelsior Publishing House in New York.
I have seen two different editions of this paperback. The top one is
No. 32 in the Excelsior Library and is dated Jan. 15th, 1894. The
bottom book has no date and is probably a reprint of the 1894 book.
Both books note "New Edition" on the title page. The earlier edition
may have been "A New Collection of Comic Recitations and Humorous
Readings" published in 1883 by Roorbach and Company and reprinted by
the Excelsior Publishing House. Burdett included a short one page
vignette "That Bad Boy Again" from Peck's Sun in the latter book.
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Peck's contribution
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