Museum of Wonders, or Curiosities of the World

A cabinet of curiosities in book form, 1890: monsters of the ancient world, wild animals, queer wanderers in the vasty deep, famous inventions and sublime scenery — assembled to astonish the young and, the preface admits, their elders too.

Charles Dickens

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Charles Dickens

HATEVER I do and whatever I say, Aunt Tabitha tells me that isn't the way, When she was a girl (forty summers ago), Aunt Tabitha tells me…

Charles Dickens (II)

XCOOSE me if I shed some tears, Und wipe my nose avay; Und if a lump vos in my troat, It comes up dere to shtay.

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