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Title: A comic history of the United States
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Hopkins, Livingston, 1846-1927
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Publisher: New York American book exchange
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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t New York andremain with him for a few days until it blows over ?I only throw this out as a mere suggestion. Goodbye. A. Watching his opportunity when his cap-tors backs were turned, the Major slipped AND MAILS IT TO ARNOLD. 127 this epistle into the coffee-pot, clapped onthe lid, and, having diverted the caninesattention by means of a piece of salt pork,which had been originally laid out for theapproaching meal, hastily appended thetin vessel to his caudal extremity, and hav-ing with nice precision turned the animalsnose in the direction of Arnolds tent, hegave the tail an agonizing tmst, and—andthe party did without coffee that night. The yellow dog came duly to hand, andMr. Arnold was not slow in acting uponthe hint contained in the message hebrought. With that long-headednesswhich is the characteristic of the true manof business he anticipated any investigationof his conduct that might follow by Iesign-ing and changing his residence at once.We learn that he subsequently went to
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128 RABID TRANSIT. 129 Europe, but up to tlie present writing hasnot yet returned. , If any one doubts the incident we havejust related about the way in which thenews of Andres capture reached. Arnold,he has only to narrowly scrutinize ourillustration, which treats of the momentwhen the sagacious quadruped reaches theAmerican lines. With almost human in-telligence he overtui^ns the sentinel, who,doubtful of the nature of his business, haschallenged his further progress. For Mr. Arnolds own sake we regret theimprudent course he pursued to improvethe state of his exchequer. It is true hisfunds were low, and no one can blame himfor wanting to make a raise. But thenhe ought to have remembered that thereare always honest as well as lucrative pur 130 WEA T MIGHT HA YE BEEN. suits open to the deserving poor involvingbut small investments; for instance, liemight have started a paper, peddledmatches, got an appointment in the Cabinet,blacked boots, organized savings banks, orwritten comic hist

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