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Show The Alchemist. "The seers of the past tried vainly to transmute base metals Into virgin gold: but I " With an 1885 comic paper before him the humorist clicked off a bustle Joke upon his typewriter, altering only on-ly the word "bustle," which he made "sheath skirt." "I have no difficulty In taking one of last generation's deadest and most worthless sallies, and turning it, in three clicks of the machine, into a real, live, down to-the-minute jokelet with a market value of at least 50 cents.". |