The Dreamer and the Worker (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1851. Excerpt: ...--" If ye had but two things in all the worreld to enable ye to ascind this ladder, and step into our booth and take a taste of the wit and janius you'd find inside, your lives would be at the top of the morning all your days afther, bedad. But two things, as I was sayin', are nadeful, espicially the first and second. I mane curiosity--and a penny. 'What is curiosity?' siz the auld woman yonder; 'and what is the latitude of it, ' siz she. 'It is the foundation of all knowledge, ma'am, ' siz I, 'and, the cause of the desire ma'am, ' siz I, 'to get at it, ' siz I. 'And what has a Fair to do with knowledge, ' siz she, 'and what does it cause but noise and mischief, and the desire to get safe out of it, ' siz she. Och murdther, ' siz I, 'ma'am don't you see that a Fair is the diffusion of knowledge among the paple. And no one is better able to introduce you to this, than meeself, ' siz I, 'wid the help of this pen, which I hold in vartue of my office, as secretary to the Improvident Dogs' Institution. There I larnt the true value of money, which inables me to assure you all that this is the show, where, in spending a penny, you gain a pound's worth of illigant instruction. 'The Stupendous Embellisher, ' I say --Walk up, and listen to ' The Stupendous Embellisher '" Mr. Walton and Harding looked at each other, and laughed. They both fancied they had heard the voice before, somewhere. A twangling sound of music inside, accompanied by several blows upon a drum and a gong, attracted a number of persons up the ladder; and Mr. Walton, with an amused look, smilingly followed the stream, accompanied by Harding. The little booth was already full, and it appeared that the " Stupendous Embellisher" had been going on for some time. The "Embellisher" was a figure in a long green c...