The Wunderkammer of the Mild Colonial Boy, Esq., a Reactionary Tory Gentleman, who armed only with a Steampowered Babbage Engine and Pure Intentions, wanders the Time Streams and Aetheric Plane gathering an Eccentric Hodgepodge of Curiousities, Frivolities, Whimsicalities and Nonsense.
Q. Why is your Tumblelog called "My Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning"?
A. Because "My Grandmother's Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning" wouldn't fit in the available space.
“It seemed as if they might go on walking there forever…” - Lucius Wolcott Hitchcock, illustrator.
Published in: “The Pursuit of the Piano” by William Dean Howells, Harper’s magazine, April 1900.
Couple Embracing - W.L. Taylor, illustrator
Published in: “The Golden Legend” by Henry W. Longfellow, Ladies Home Journal, October 1904.
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