The Vault at Pfaff's

An Archive of Art and Literature by the Bohemians of Antebellum New York

A Few Outrages

A Walking Gentleman Anonymous. "A Few Outrages." Vanity Fair, December 31, 1859, 11.
Electronic Source Available
Type
magazine
Genre
commentary
satire
Abstract

The author, a self-proclaimed Southerner, declares that the flocks of urchins shoving handbills in people's faces and asking for a penny for their effort must be eradicated. He promises to thin the numbers.