A mock encyclopaedia, proudly inaccurate in every particular, with joke abbreviations, bogus etymologies and entries on everything from the peach and the peekaboo shirtwaist to automobiles, insomnia, whist, germs and baseball, plus a poor man’s cook book. The slang and the jokes are pure New York at the turn of the century.
A lively specimen of turn-of-the-century American wisecracking, for collectors of comic dictionaries. Download the free EPUB.