"a Powerful Reader."

"A Powerful Reader."

  "Anything In the literary line today, gents? ' said the old book-peddler, as he rested his humble on a table in the boat's cabin. "What hev yer got thar?" queried one of the passengers, who was dressed in a butternut suit.  "Most anything-. Here's Dickens, Sir E. Bulwer Lytton, Thackeray, Emerson, Bennett, Ned Buntline, and other distinguished authors. Take a look."  "Got ther Life of Davy Crocket?" "Here it is, complete in one volume. Price 50 cents." "Wall. jist do me up ov um, Mister. I'm a Powerful Reader. I recon they'll do me till I get ter Texas"