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“Know ye not who would be free
themselves must strike the blow.”—BYRON.
TWENTY
YEARS
A
FAKIR
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TWENTY YEARS
A
FAKIR
CONTENTS.
Starting Out—Becoming Ambitious—LeavingHome—Hotel Porter—Card Business—LightningRod Agent—Traveling Men—The Accident.
Busted—Soap Signs—Walking—The TwoActors—Free Theatres—Jumping Bills—TheOther Fakir—Pen Schemes—Street Talk—TheFriendly Haystack.
Meeting Prof. Carter—The Music Scheme—Flowersand Novelties—The Ladies—The SoapRacket—Street Gags and Jokes—The SinkingVessel.
The Contemptible Piano Tuner—The BiographicalWrite-up Fake—The Flattered Black-smith.
Fakir Maxims—A Happy Meeting—AuctionBusiness—Talk and Auction Gags—The BoyAuctioneer—Parting with Prof. Carter.
Getting onto Scheme Goods—Frightening theLadies—Trick at Church Fair—Street Work—TheCatchy Little Look-backs, and Giving ThemAway—The Horse and the Loaf of Bread Trick—HandlingMicroscopes.
The Museum Scheme and the Six Widows—TravelingWithout Paying Railroad Fare—Livingon Free Lunches—At a Low Ebb—The AnimatedChocolat