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A
HOUSE-BOAT ON THE STYX
BEING SOME ACCOUNT OF THE
DIVERS
DOINGS OF THE ASSOCIATED SHADES
by John Kendrick Bangs
Illustrated by Peter
Newell
NEW YORK
HARPER & BROTHERS
PUBLISHERS
1896
Copyright 1895, by HARPER & BROTHERS
TO
HENRY LOOMIS NELSON
THROUGH WHOSE ACQUIESCENCE THESE PAPERS WERE
FIRST INFLICTED UPON A LONG-SUFFERING PUBLIC
THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED
WITH THE HOPE THAT IT MAY BE SOME WEEKS
BEFORE HE BECOMES ELIGIBLE FOR MEMBERSHIP AMONG
THE ASSOCIATED SHADES
CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
“THE BRILLIANT
COMPANY WAS ARRANGED ABOUT THE BOARD”
“CHARON
DISCOVERS A STRANGE-LOOKING CRAFT”
“CHARON IS
RECEIVED BY THE HOUSE COMMITTEE”
“ ‘GOOD SHOT,’
SAID DOCTOR JOHNSON, NONCHALANTLY”
“LORD BACON,
ACCOMPANIED BY CHARON, APPEARED”
“AN ORCHESTRA
OF FIVE, UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF MOZART,
DISCOURSED SWEET MUSIC”
DOCTOR JOHNSON
IN A RAGE
“THE MELANCHOLY
DANE APPEARED”
EJECTING A
FRENZIED POET FROM THE CARD-ROOM
THE HOUSE
COMMITTEE DISCUSS THE POETS
“ ‘AND I, TOO,’
PUT IN BARON MUNCHAUSEN, ‘HAVE FREQUENTLY CONVERSED
WITH MONKEYS’ ”
“ ‘BOY, IS ADAM
IN THE CLUB-HOUSE TODAY?’ ”
SIR WALTER
RALEIGH MEETING QUEEN ELIZABETH
LUCRETIA
BORGIA
AND DELILAH WERE NOT INVITED
“ ‘WHAT IS THE
AVERAGE WEIGHT OF A COPY OF “PUNCH”?’ DRAWLED
ARTEMAS WARD”
SHAKESPEARE AS
A SUBURBAN RESIDENT
PHIDIAS SEES “A
LIFE-SIZE STATUE OF THE INVENTOR OF A NEW KIND OF
LARD”
“PHIDIAS
MODELLED A BEAUTIFUL HEAD OF MINERVA”
“GOLDSMITH,
PALE WITH FEAR, RISES TO SPEAK”
WELLINGTON
PULLS BONAPART’S CAMP-CHAIR FROM UNDER HIM
“ ‘I’D LIKE
MIGHTILY TO HAVE YOU EXPLAIN YOUR STATEMENT, MR. BARNUM’ ”
“ ‘PAPA IS
RIGHT ABOUT THAT, MR. BARNUM,’ SAID SHEM”
THE FAIR
STROLLERS
“IT WAS CAPTAIN
KIDD AND HIS PIRATE CREW”
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