On the Road Home:
Poems. By Margaret E. Sangster. Illustrated. 16mo, Cloth, Ornamental, $1.25.
Home Fairies and Heart Flowers.
Twenty Studies of Children's Heads. With Floral Embellishments, Head and Tail Pieces, Initial Letters, etc., by Frank French. With Poems by Margaret E. Sangster. 4to, Cloth, $6.00. (In a Box.)
HARPER & BROTHERS, Publishers, New York
TOLD BY FLORENCE.
William J. Florence, the comedian, had a reputation for bright stories and practical jokes. The following one is said to have been told by him at a dinner one night, when the conversation turned on travelling theatrical companies: