The Burgess Nonsense Book

The Burgess Nonsense Book

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Being a complete collection of the humorous masterpieces Gelett Burgess, esq., sometime editor of the "Lark", "Le Petit Journal des RefusŽes" & "Enfant Terrible". Including the "Purple Cow" and forty odd Nonsense Quatrains, The "Chewing Gum Man" Epics, the Gerrish, Ghost Stories, Poems of Patagonia, Curious Cartoons, Autobiographies of Famous Goops, & a Myriad Impossibilies, adorned with less than A Million Heart-Rending Illustrations by the Author. The Whole forming a Book of Blissful Bosh for the BlasŽ; an Amusing Antidote to Modern Neurasthenia; a Stimulating Spar to Thoughtlessness, & a Restful Recreation for the Super-Civilized, the Over-Education, & the Hyper-Refine. Carefully Expurgated of all Reason, Purpose, & Verisimilitude by a Corps of Irresponsible Idiots. An Extrageneous Tome of Twaddle, an Infallible Cyclopaedia of Balderdash. Ferocious Fancies & Inconsequential Vagaries Than which, Nothing could be More So.