#Ohio webwall archive#
#Ohio webwall series#

Now, what are mushrooms? Nothing more or less than toadstools, though why they are called toadstools is beyond me I have yet to see a toad sitting on a stool, although I have combed all the books dealing with the subject. Four hundred and one, really, because when I looked up this fact in the World Almanac, I found a new variety growing out of. It will probably come as a mild shock to no one that there are all of four hundred different kinds of mushrooms. As I say, I stayed in bed nearly two weeks that time, but after I was well, I got this Frank and Johnny to put aside the place as a sort of permanent laboratory where I could study the mushrooms. Well, I let out a scream fit to wake a dead man-as a matter of fact, it did wake up a dead man who'd been in the corner for three days and he came over and tried to bite me. I was down there one evening bent on some coal and wood when Tony pointed to the ceiling and said 'Coipo di Bacco, what's that?' I looked up and there was a whole clump of mushrooms growing right out at me. Two friends of mine named Johnny had a little place, a sort of cellar, on Fifty-second Street where they kept coal and wood and ice. I first became interested in mushrooms about ten years ago. Needless to say, the incident did not pass unnoticed, and I retired in confusion amid the hearty laughter of several wealthy cattle-drovers who had come down to New York for the day on the steam cars.

'An umbrella/' she replied shortly, descending from the train at Seventy-second Street. Only yesterday I happened to fall into conversation with a stranger in the subway, an extremely well-made woman of thirty-one with Dresden-dainty hands and feet, I noticed that she was eating a small umbrella-shaped object and asked her what it was. Well, autumn is here again, and very shortly every Tom, Dick and Harry will be asking himself the question 'Poisonous mushrooms-yes or no?' In every mossy dell, in every nook of granny, these delicious little edibles are springing up.

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However, the Internet Archive has a complete out-of-copyright book! It's called 'Best of S J Perelman'. Oh, and if you want to read more, basically the only thing by him still in print is 'Most of the most of S J Perelman'.

#Ohio webwall series#

Note: The second part of a two-part series of articles by S J Perelman.