Opening of the book
SOCIETY AS I HAVE FOUND IT.
very truly yours, handwritten: Ward Mc Allister
very truly yours, handwritten: Ward Mc Allister
Society
As I Have Found It
BY
WARD McALLISTER
NEW YORK
CASSELL PUBLISHING COMPANY
104 & 106 Fourth Avenue, New York
Copyright,
1890,
By WARD McALLISTER.
All rights reserved.
THE MERSHON COMPANY PRESS,
RAHWAY, N. J.
“This book is intended to be miscellaneous, with a
noble disdain of regularity.”—Obiter Dicta.
“How then does a man, be he good or bad, big or
little, make his Memoirs interesting? To say that the
one thing needful is individuality, is not quite
enough. To have an individuality is no sort of
distinction, but to be able to make it felt in writing is
not
only
distinction,
but
under
favorable
circumstances, immortality.”—The Same.
AUTHOR’S NOTE.
One who reads this book through will have as
rough a mental journey as his physical nature would undergo in riding over a corduroy road in an old stage-coach. It makes no pretension to either scholarship or elegant diction.
W. McA.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
PAGE
My Family—My Mother an Angel of Beauty and Charity—My Father’s
Nobleness of Character—Building Bonfires on Paradise Rocks and flying Kites from
Purgatory with Uncle Sam Ward—My Brother the Lawyer,
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CHAPTER II.
My New York Life—A Penurious Aunt who fed me on Turkey—My First Fancy
Ball—Spending One Thousand Dollars for a Costume—The Schermerhorns give a ball in Great Jones Street—Sticking a Man’s Calf and Drawing Blood—A Craze for
Dancing—I Study Law—Blackstone has a Rival in lovely Southern Maidens—I go to San Francisco in ’50—Fees Paid in Gold Dust—Eggs at $2—My First
Housekeeping—A faux pas at a Reception,
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CHAPTER III.
Introduction to London Sports—A Dog Fight in the Suburbs—Sporting Ladies—
The Drawing of the Badger—My Host gets Gloriously Drunk—Visit to Her
Majesty’s Kitchen—Dinner with the Chef of Windsor Castle—I taste Montilla
Sherry for the First Time—“A Shilling to pay for the Times,”
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CHAPTER IV.
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