The Purple Cow!

By Gelett Burgess

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Good Press
• Release date: Dec 3, 2019
• ISBN: 4057664581358

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Gelett Burgess

The Purple Cow!

Published by Good Press, 2019

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EAN 4057664581358

Table of Contents

THE PECULIAR HISTORY OF THE CHEWING-GUM MAN.

Chapter II.

ORDER

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TO THE

READERS OF "THE LARK"

WHO HAVE LAUGHED

THEY KNEW NOT WHY,

THESE INARTISTIC ABERRATIONS

ARE GRATEFULLY DEDICATED.

GELETT BURGESS

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THE PECULIAR HISTORY OF THE

CHEWING-GUM MAN.

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O

WILLIE, an’ Wallie, an’ Huldy Ann,

They went an’ built a big CHEWIN’-GUM MAN:

It was none o’ your teenty little dots,

With pinhole eyes an’ pencil-spots;

But this was a terribul big one—well,

’T was a’most as high as the Palace Hotel!

It took ’em a year to chew the gum!!

And Willie he done it all, ’cept some

That Huldy got her ma to chew,

By the time the head was ready to do.

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Well, Willie he chewed it for days ’n’ days;

They brung it to him in gret big drays;

An’ fast as