Landon, Melville D. (Melville De Lancey), 1839-1910 [1875], Eli Perkins (at large): his sayings and doings. With multiform illustrations by Uncle Consider, after models by those designing young men, Nast, Darley, Fredericks, Eytinge, White, Stephens and others. (J.B. Ford & Company, New York) [word count] [eaf627T].

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Eli Perkins (at large): his sayings and doings. By Melville D. Landon. With multiform illustrations by Uncle Consider, after models by those designing young men, Nast, Darley, Fredericks, Eytinge, White, Stephens, and others.

Front Matter Front matter Covers, Edges and Spine Preliminaries Title Page PREFACE. CONTENTS. Main text UNCLE CONSIDER, ON TEMPERANCE. SOLITAIRE DIAMONDS. ELI PERKINS IN HOT WATER. ELI ON FIRE-PROOF HOUSES. DREADFUL PROFANITY. ELI PERKINS'S PEN PICTURES. A FIFTH AVENUE EPISODE. A LONESOME MAN. SARATOGA SPRING FASHIONS. ABOUT CHILDREN. SERVANTGALISM. UPPERTENDOM. LETTER FROM ANT CHARITY. THE LITERARY GIRL. UNCLE CONSIDER AS A CRUSADER. ELI IN LOVE. BROWN'S BOYS. CHAPTER I. THE TRIBE IN GENERAL. CHAPTER II. BROWN'S BOYS AT PARTIES. A BROWN'S BOY IN LOVE. BROWN'S BOYS IN NEW YORK. RICH BROWN'S BOYS. BROWN'S GIRLS. ADVICE TO YOUNG MEN. THE FUNNY SIDE OF FISK. REV. ELI PERKINS. A SAD MAN. A QUEER MAN. ELI'S HAPPY THOUGHTS. THE LEGAL-MINDED MAN. A GRATEFUL MAN. A CONSISTENT MAN. THE DANCING MANIA. THE MILITARY MAN. THE HORSE MAN. THE PIOUS MAN. A FRONTIERSMAN. THE HACKMAN. SEWERS AND SOWERS. HARD ON LAWYERS. E. PERKINS—ATTORNEY AT LAW. HOW DONN PIRATE THRASHED “ELI PERKINS. ” A DAY AT SARATOGA. THE SWELLS AT SARATOGA. MINNIE IN SARATOGA. MARRIED BROWN'S BOYS AT SARATOGA. ELI'S BELLE OF SARATOGA. BROWN'S BOYS AT SARATOGA. UP TO SNUFF. A FLIRTING DODGE. FALL OF ANOTHER CLERGYMAN. THE SWELL DRESS-PARADE. THE GOOD MAN. OWED TO FRANKLIN STATUE. A PARROT STORY. THE RAT STORY. TRAVERS AND CLEWS. TRAVERS ON FISK AND GOULD. PAWN-SHOP CLOTHES. WHERE DUCKS LIVE. FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS SAVED. TIP OF THE FASHION. SHIRKING FROM WORK. TRUNK SMASHERS. ELI ON DOMINIE FORD. A HARD NAME. ELI ON THE F. F. C's. THE MEANEST MAN YET. NEWSPAPER GOKE. ELI ON ANA. ANIMATE NATURE. ORIGINAL POETRY. COMPLIMENTARY. BABIES. TIGHT LACING. SOM-ET-I-MES. GRAMMAR. ELI PERKINS BLUNDERS. NICE ARABLE LAND. MONEY CLOSE. INDIFFERENCE. THE WHISKEY WAR. FUN IN WASHINGTON, OHIO. TERRIBLY INDIGNANT. THE UNSUSPECTING MAN. VERY DANGEROUS. WOOD. SARATOGA BETTING. WICKED AND PROFANE. MR. MARVIN'S BLUNDER. POOR BUT HONEST. PRECISE STATEMENTS. EARLY TO BED. PERSONAL MATTERS. SMALL FEET. LITTLE PERKINSISMS. ELI PERKINS'S NEW YEAR'S CALLS. HOW ELI PERKINS LECTURED IN POTTSVILLE. SCARING A CONNECTICUT FARMER. ELI PERKINS AS A BALLOONATIC. THE SHREWD MAN. LOST CHILDREN IN NEW YORK. THE ABSENT-MINDED MAN. TWO HUNDRED MILLIONS OF DOLLARS! Back matter CHICKERING & SONS' GRAND, SQUARE and UPRIGHT PIANO-FORTES Established 1841. TRADE MARK Dunlap & Co. N. Y. OTIS PASSENGER AND FREIGHT ELEVATORS GOOD NOVELS! ESTABLISHED 1870. HANOVER Fire Insurance Company OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK. AUTOMATIC. Grand Union Hotel, SARATOGA SPRINGS, J. H. BRESLIN & CO. , Proprietors. ENOCH MORGAN'S SON'S SAPOLIO, For Cleaning and Polishing.