A Schenectady Man's Hard Luck
A tiny filler joke about a would-be woodcutter thwarted at every turn — a glimpse of the era's taste for deadpan absurdist humor columns.
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Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 18, 1876 · Page 1
1 min readA Schenectady man couldn't take a job at sawing wood because he hadn't a saw. When some one gave him a saw he couldn't raise money enough to have it filed. When he got over that difficulty he had no saw-buck, and sat down and wept and became entirely discouraged.
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