Excerpt from The Log of Commodore Rollingpin: His Adventures Afloat and Ashore

"O give me back my fifteen cents,

O give me back my money;

O give me back my fifteen cents,

And I"ll go home, my honey." - Shakespeare.

Our story opens in the city of St Louis; and I will here take time by.the forelock, and inform the gentle reader that it closes without going outside of-v the corporation limits.

It was a bright morning in autumn, and the sun was up about as high as he generally gets at 10 a.m. Dennis Magannagin, a rising young bootblack, was seen walking hurriedly back and forth in front of a lamp-post, at the base of which was deposited his professional outfit. The little tin box was branded, "Mason"s best oil blackin, warranted to turn water."

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