文档介绍：Uncles Josh's Punkin Centre Stories
Uncles Josh's Punkin
Centre Stories
By Cal Stewart
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Preface
To the Reader.
The one particular object in writing this book is to furnish you with an
occasional laugh, and the writer with an occasional dollar. If you get the
laugh you have your equivalent, and the writer has his.
In Uncle Josh Weathersby you have a purely imaginary character, yet
one true to life. A character chuck full of sunshine and rural simplicity.
Take him as you find him, and in his experiences you will observe there is
a bright side to everything.
Sincerely Yours Cal Stewart
Life Sketch of Author
THE author was born in Virginia, on a little patch of land, so poor we
had to fertilize it to make brick. Our family, while having cast their
fortunes with the South, was not a family ruined by the war; we did not
have anything when the menced, and so we held our own. I
secured mon school education, and at the age of twelve I left home,
or rather home left me --things just petered out. I was slush cook on an
Ohio River Packet; check clerk in a stave and heading camp in the knobs
of Tennessee, Virginia and ia; I helped lay the track of the M. K. &
T. R. R., and was chambermaid in a livery stable. Made my first
appearance on the stage at the National Theatre in Cincinnati, Ohio, and
have since then chopped cord wood, worked in a coal mine, made cross
ties (and walked them), worked on a farm, taught a district school (made
love to the big girls), run a threshing machine, cut bands, fed the machine
and ran the engine. Have been a freight and passenger brakeman, fired and
ran a otive; also a freight train conductor and check clerk in a freight
house; worked on the section; have been a shot gun messenger for the
Wells, pany. Have been with a circus, minstrels, edy,
burlesque and dramatic productions; have been with good shows, bad
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shows, medicine show