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The History and Records of the Elephant Club 1The Elephant Club
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Literature · Humor
The History and Records of the Elephant Club 1
The Elephant Club
DoesticksEnglish
WITH A MINUTE AND PARTICULAR NARRATIVE OF WHAT THEY DID; TO WHICH IS ADDED A COMPLEX AND ELABORATE DESCRIPTION OF WHAT THEY DIDN'T.
CONTAINING ALSO THE EXULTANT RECORD OF THEIR
MEMORABLE SUCCESS IN EVENTUALLY OBTAINING, EACH AND EVERY
ONE, A SIGHT OF THE ENTIRE AND UNADULTERATED
ANIMAL,
FROM THE PRIMITIVE HAIR ON HIS ATTENUATED PROBOSCIS, TO THE LAST KINK OF HIS SYMMETRICAL TAIL.
COMPILED
BY ME,
KNIGHT RUSS OCKSIDE, M.D.,
AND ME,
Q.K. PHILANDER DOESTICKS, P.B.
PREFACE.
This book has been written by the Authors, and printed by the Publishers, in the hope that it may be purchased by the Public. If it proves to be a failure, the responsibility must rest with the People who don't buy it.
CONTENTS.
HOW THEY MET.
PAGE
What there wasn't--What there was--A fancied recognition--Singular coincidences--Preamble and resolution--A third party--A fourth party--Accusation of petty larceny--Satisfactory explanation--Spirits in the closet--A mysterious letter--Alarm of Boggs--More mystery--A murder anticipated--The reason why--A perplexing predicament--A philanthropist discovered--A general embrace--An astonishing statement 11
