EBOOK NOTHING TO EAT ***
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[Illustration: "PROTESTING, EXCUSING, AND SWEARING A VOW,
SHE'D NOTHING WORTH EATING TO GIVE US FOR DINNER."]
NOTHING TO EAT.
Illustrated.
NOT
By the Author of "Nothing to Wear"
"I'll nibble a little at what I have got."
--"My appetite's none of the best.
And so I must pamper the delicate thing."
--The least mite will suffice:
A side bone and dressing and bit of the breast.
The tip of the rump--that's it--and one of the fli's"
NEW YORK:
1857
Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1857, by
EDWARD O. JENKINS,
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern
District of New York.
Respectfully Dedicated
TO ALL LADIES "DYING WITH DYSPEPSIA.
"Where fashion and folly are all of a suit."
BY A JOLLY GOOD NATURED AUTHOR.
CONTENTS.
THE ARGUMENT
THE PROOF--THE QUEEN OF FASHION
THE OBJECT AIMED AT
WHAT ANOTHER POET DID
HOW THE AUTHOR SOMETIMES DINES
MERDLE THE BANKER
PLACES WHERE MORTALS DINE
THINGS THAT MORTALS EAT THERE
THE INVITATION
THE MERDLE ORIGIN
MRS.
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