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Talkers: With Illustrations

Talkers: With Illustrations

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cannot be tamed, why attempt the task?” The answer to this is: a little evil is better than a big one; and a tongue partially tamed is better than a tongue altogether wild. Therefore, while the author has no expectation of taming any man’s tongue altogether, he has the hope of taming a great many a little, and, in the aggregate, of doing something towards elevating the talking civilization of the nineteenth century.

“Will you have a little tongue?” asked a lady of a gentleman one day at the dinner-table. “I will, ma’am, if it is cured,” was the answer. Alas! tongue will be at immense discount in the world if it is not received until it is “cured.” One must be content to take it as near “cured” as it can be obtained. Not only must there be mutual efforts to cure one another’s, but each must try to cure his own.

And now, reader, the author asks you to peruse his book, and to make the best use you can of it; and he suggests, when you have done this, be careful that you do not so talk about it as to illustrate some one or more of the characters within it.

J. B.

November, 1877.

 

 


CONTENTS.

      page
I. THE MONOPOLIST   1
II. THE FALSE HUMOURIST   18
III. THE FLATTERER   22
IV. THE BRAWLER   35
V. THE MISCHIEF-MAKER   38
VI. THE PLEONAST   55
VII. THE SELF-DISPARAGER   62
VIII. THE COMMON SWEARER   71
IX. THE AFFECTED   85
X. THE STULTILOQUIST   94
XI. THE SLANDERER   101
XII. THE VALETUDINARIAN   111
XIII. THE WHISPERER   119
XIV. THE HYPERBOLIST   124
XV. THE INQUISITIVE   133
XVI. THE PEDANT   142
XVII. THE DETRACTOR  

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