COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME. PRICE FIFTY CENTS.
DR. VALENTINE'S COMIC LECTURES.
FIRST AND SECOND SERIES, WITH COMICAL PORTRAITS.
THE FUNNIEST AND MOST LAUGHABLE BOOK EVER PUT IN PRINT!
If you read this book, it will make you laugh, and you can't help it. The
sourest crab of a Quaker that ever dressed in drab, could not help smiling at the
droll and mirth-inspiring stories of Dr. Valentine. The first series contains some
ten or a dozen portraits illustrating the favorite comic characters assumed by the
Doctor in his public exhibitions; and which have made him so celebrated throughout
the United States. We have here Dr. Valentine as Aunty Piggin—as Tabitha
Tiptongue—as Joab Squash—as the learned Phrenologist—as the big News-Boy—
as the laughing Frenchman—as Daddy Hague—as the Widow Gabbletongue—as
the Hypochondriac; or the man who imagined himself a Teakettle with a broken
bottom—as Plato Pug, &c. Besides the various lectures, this book contains over
Forty of the Doctor's Droll Stories, told in his best style of laughter-provoking
eloquence. Among the most famous of these stories are Si Hoselcruce's Courtship
of Debby Higgins—Jake Doolittle's Trip across the Big Pond—Curious antics
of Mrs. Scruggins's Old Cow—Jonathan Hatchet and Timothy Greenhorn in New
York—A Bundle of wants—Sam Doleful's Case—The Lawyer Outwitted, &c.
This first series is complete in itself, and is in no way connected with the second
Volume.
The Second Series or
DR. VALENTINE'S COMIC LECTURES.
This is likewise a book complete by itself. It contains a third more droll stories,
though not quite so many engravings as the first. Those who have got the first series
will be sure to buy this also as soon as they can straighten their faces to ask for it.
Among the seventy-one laughter-provoking stories contained in this book of drolleries
we notice—the Yankee who Courted the Fat Gal—Receipt for making Mollasses
Candy—Sophy Slow's Visit to the President—the Wonderful Mare—The
Communipaw Examination—Jonathan Screw's Adventures—The Courtship of
Jerusha Suizzards—The Boy with a Short Memory—Speech of Lot Doolittle—
Abe Kershaw's Speech at Washington—The Yankee in Court, or the Lawyer
puzzled.
Among the illustrations are—Dr. Valentine as Mr. Honeyface—as Mr. Sourerout—as
Mike Bones—as Betsey Beeswax—as Seth Stokes, &c., &c. Altogether
this is a very attractive book for persons fond of this kind of stories.—Price 50
Cents
Both of the above works are published, and for sale, wholesale and retail, by
W. F. BURGESS, 22 Ann Street, N. Y.
