Complete works of Edgar Allen Poe - 1902 Author:Edgar Allan Poe Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Why the Little Frenchman Wears His Hand in a Sling T 'S on my wishing cards sure enough (and it's them that's all o' pink satin paper) that inny gintlema... more »n that plases may behould the intheristhin words, " Sir Pathrick O'Grandison, Barronitt, 39 Southampton Row, Russell Square, Parrish o' Bloomsbury." And shud ye be wantin' to diskiver who is the pink of purliteness quite, and the laider of the hot tun in the houl city o' Lonon, why it's jist mesilf. And, fait, that same is no wonder at all at all (so be plased to stop curlin' your nose), for every inch o' the six wakes that I 've been a gintleman, and left aff wid the bog-throthing to take up wid the Barronissy, it's Pathrick that's been living like a houly imperor, and gitting the iddication and the graces. Och! and would n't it be a blessed thing for your sperrits if ye cud lay your two peepers jist upon Sir Pathrick O'Grandison, Barronitt, when he is all riddy drissed for the hopperer, or slipping intothe Brisky for the drive into the Hyde Park. But it's the illigant big figgur that I 'ave, for the rason o' which all the ladies fall La love wid me. Is n't it my own swate silf now that '11 missure the six fur, and the three inches more nor that, in me stockings, and that am excadingly will-proportioned all over to match ? And is it ralelly more than three fut and a bit that there is, innyhow, of the little ould furrener Frinch- man that lives jist over the way, and that's a oggling and a goggling the houl day (and bad luck to him) at the purty widdy Misthress Trade that's my own nixt-door neighbor (God bliss her!) and a most par- ticuller frind and acquaintance ? You percave the little spalpeen is summat down in the mouth, and wears his lift hand in a sling; and it's for that same thing, by yur lave, that I 'm going to g...« less