PECK'S SUNSHINE, 



BY GEO. W. PECK 



Illustrated by Hopkins. 12mo. Cloth and Paper Covers. 



OFFICE OF PECK'S SUN, 



MILWAUKEE, 1882. 

 To Innocent and Unsuspecting Tourists: 



This is to caution you and ],ut you on your guard against the News Dealer on 

 this train. He is a bold, designing person, who has a purpose. All of the 

 oranges, and bananas, and vegetable ivory that he fires uown your neck is 

 for the purpose of getting your mind in shape, so c^x perpetrate on you 

 the crowning act. When he gets your system in a cond'tion such as he desires, 

 he will offer you a book called " A eck's Sunshine," and .> ^u will be so powerless 

 to protect yourself that you will buy it. Then your troubles will commence. 

 There is something about that book that will claim your attention and cause 

 you to laugh out in meeting. You vill strike somet. ug in it that will make 

 \ )ii forget what station you want i get off ; , and you are liable to be carried 

 beyond your destination, and have to walk back. The book is full of trichinae, 

 and people have read only to go h^me and send for a doctor, after it was ever- 

 lastingly too late. The reading of the book seems to have a bad effect on every 

 body. Fun is a good thing in place, but where ,t causes brother to rise up 

 against brother, too much care cannot be exercised. I know of one young wo- 

 man who had always led a different life. She was an exemplary Christian, and 

 never missed a church sociable, or a Sunday school picnic. Her voice was 

 always heard in the choir and the sewing society. A man, little dreaming 



of the result, presented her with a copy of ' Peck's Sunshine." She read it, and 

 her whole being seemed to undergo a change. In less than a month she was 

 married to the young man. I mention this as a terrible example. I am anxious 

 to get the book off the market, so I can write another of a more pious nature 

 The sale of this book has been so large that I fjar much damage has been done, 

 and I ask that you beware of the designing young man who offers to sell you the 

 book, but if you insist on heaping coals of fire on my head, buy it, but be careful 

 and not sit in a draft of air when you read it. That was what gave Henry Ward 

 Beecher the hay fever. I am so anxious to stop the sale of the book that I will 

 give a chromo to all who do not buy it. 



THE AUTHOR. 



For Sale by Bestsellers, News Dealers and on Trains. 



BELFOKD, CLAEKE & CO., 



PUBLISHERS, 



CHICAGO 



