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The king of Gee-Whiz (1906) (14566356768)
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Title: The king of Gee-Whiz
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Hough, Emerson, 1857-1923 Nesbit, Wilbur D. (Wilbur Dick), 1871-1927 Cesare, Oscar Edward, 1885-1948
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Publisher: Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN
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CHAPTER IX THE ARRIVAL AT THE ISLAND As the boat was blown from under them, the passengersthought the end had come and that they must be drownedfar beneath the sea; and only the great skill and presenceof mind of the Private Secretary prevented their meetingthis fate. But as they were starting upward, carried bythe violence of the explosion, the Private Secretarycaught at the rack where the life-preservers were hang-ing, and so saved their lives. As they reached the surfacehe handed each a life-preserver, and soon they were allswimming safely on the surface of a placid green sea. THE KING OF GEE-WHIZ Madam, said the Private Secretary sternly, thatwe are not all killed is no fault of yours. Such care-lessness deserves the utmost punishment, for now ourboat is gone. :I am innocent, cried the Widow Pickle, for I didjust what you told me to do, I arn sure. I threw in thepowder; and indeed it seems to me that was what madethe explosion. Precisely, said the Private Secretary. You put inthe
Oscar Cesare was born in 1885. He worked as a cartoonist for the New York Sun and adopted the grease crayon technique that had been adopted by other radical cartoonists such as Boardman Robinson, Robert Minor, K. R. Chamberlain, and Rollin Kirby.
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