Josiah's Alarm, and Abel Perry's Funeral

JOSIAH ALLEN’S WIFE
ILLUSTRATED
PHILADELPHIA
J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY
1895
JOSIAH’S ALARM
Copyright, 1893, by J. B. Lippincott Company.
ABEL PERRY’S FUNERAL
Copyright, 1887, by J. B. Lippincott Company.
Printed by J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia.
When we had the furnace put into our new house, the man who built the house, and the agent who sold it, acted awful skairt.
The agent talked dretful skairful. He said we would be too hot. He said, “In every other respect it wuz a perfect furnace, only it would be liable to heat us up too much.”