Stokesiana : beynge a collectyone of trewe and wonderfulle sayynges, copyed frome owld manuscrypts dygged frome unde ye Contynental Inn.
A comic guide to Philadelphia, Pa., with literary advertisements for Chas. Stokes, clothier.
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[Philadelphia, Pa.] :
[Charles Stokes],
1869.
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Table of Contents:
- "To whom it may concern."
- "Know thyself."
- Stokesiana /
- by a fellow, (not long)
- Lines respectfully inscribed to Mr. George Francis Train, candidate for the next presidency
- Mrs. Partington in town
- The house that Jack built
- Fond parient [sic] (examining his children in their Sunday school lessons)
- The song of the anti-renter
- The raid on our boarders
- "Edgar," a poe(m!), showing how the hero was made "ravin."
- An epistle from that complete letter writer, Mr. Naseby
- Read! read!! read!!!
- Advice, both seasonable and reasonable
- The model railway clerk
- "The law of the finger-ping."
- What one sees on Chestnut Street
- Interpretation of dreams
- An eulogy, written on a city sidewalk, near "Stokes' Porches," /
- by a poet Gray himself
- (Letter.) newcastle delw. decr. 1969
- The ready maid, a poem made-to-order
- A Continental love story
- View of Oil City /
- from a photograph by Knight & Son
- Ode to grease, after Pope, a good while
- Some conundrums by an old bachelor
- The model husband
- Agents wanted
- Vulgar errors.