funs

Updated: June 24, 2025

No objextions to small bills. We know how few there are of you but we don't think we have asked for too much. Yours Respecfully, D. PIKE, and numrous Frends. P.X. Thow somewhat short on reddy funs, We still no how to use our guns. This is poetry but we mean bizness.

Hayden Carruth - Track's End: Being the Narrative of Judson Pitcher's Strange Winter Spent There As Told by Himself and Edited by Hayden Carruth Including an Accurate Account of His Numerous Adventures, and the Facts Concerning His Several Surprising Escapes from Death Now First Printed in Full

I was so pleased with the Queen's Crown, that it occurd to me what a agree'ble surprise it would be to send a sim'lar one home to my wife; and I asked the Warder what was the vally of a good, well-constructed Crown like that. He told me, but on cypherin up with a pencil the amount of funs I have in the Jint Stock Bank, I conclooded I'd send her a genteel silver watch instid.

Artemus Ward - The Complete Works of Artemus Ward — Part 5: The London Punch Letters