HISTORY 135E

Department of History
University of California, Irvine
 Instructor:    Dr. Barbara J. Becker
 

Week 9.  Riddley Guide

 
Chapter 17

Riddley and Orfing put their new show on the road and travel from Cambry to Weaping Form (previously called Bad Mercy Fents)
 
 
Page 203.  Life aint qwite as simpl as it use to be....

What are your thoughts on Riddley's musing.

 
Page 205.  Time back is in them Punch figgers.  Dead hans and gone carvit them heads and colourt them and follering some idear they dint just happen randem.  Its a lot of work to carve a head that wel you have to have it in you to begin with then you have to take the neak of it thru all the different episodes of the work from the rough cut to the finel smooving and the pryming and the painting of it.

 
Page 205.  In the figger bag I foun a little thing its 2 littl curvit peaces of iron with a thin peace of clof rapt roun and in be twean so its like when you hol a blade of grass be twean your thums to shril with it.  The iron holding the clof the way your thums would the grass.  This littl thing you put it in your mouf and when its parper wet you can do Punchs voyce with it.  Orfing tol me its what they call a swazzl.

If you'd like to make your own swazzle, you will find some easy directions here.

Pages 205-6.  Theres other figgers Goodparley never showit in that show he done for me.  Theres some great grean naminal with long joars and ever so many teef.  Theres a black man and other figgers as wel Iwl never know ther story....

1 figger tho.  1 figger hes the same and very 1 in boath bags of figgers.  Mr Clevver.  Which hes Mr On The Levvil and hes callit Drop John as wel.  There he is the name changes but he dont.  In all that 2ness there he comes up hes the 1.  Hes your lad for clevver work or Drop Johning which ever myt be neadit there he is the boath of him plus the goast of him.  Same red face and littl black beard and the same horns growing out of his head.  Same red cloes even.

 
Go to:
  • Towers -- "The Centennial Tower One Thousand Feet High", Scientific American (24 January 1874) and "A One Thousand Foot Tower", Scientific American (10 January 1885)
  • On "Smog", selected articles from The New York Times (1940-1952)
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