Vissch: A Book of Sketches, Rhymes, and Other Matters Credited to Matthew Mattox, N. P. R (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Vissch: A Book of Sketches, Rhymes, and Other Matters Credited to Matthew Mattox, N. P. R

Birds of a feather flock together, is a trite old adage that every school-boy in the land has scrawled in his copy book, in faint imitation of the august, Spencerian characters of his pedagogue and from this chirographic pattern, perhaps, sprang philosophically the deduction, that Misfortunes never come alone. Bad luck, in all its gregariousness, followed and drove the chronicler herein through many wanderings, the which, brought under his notice and his pen, the incidents and characters portrayed in this little volume which he has published for the triple purpose of filling up an hour or two of the multitude's spare time, filling up some blank books he had by him, and mayhap, filling enough bright dollars into his depleted exchequer to get his teeth filled, so that he might continue to live out West and masticate Texas beef.

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