The world of wit and humour, ed. by G.M. FennGeorge Manville Fenn Cassell, Petter, & Galpin, 1899 - 480 стор. |
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... Street Buildings , on a winter night , Snug by his parlour fire , a gouty wight Sat all alone , with one hand rubbing His leg , wrapped up in fleecy hose , While t'other held beneath his nose The Public Ledger , in whose columns ...
... Street Buildings , on a winter night , Snug by his parlour fire , a gouty wight Sat all alone , with one hand rubbing His leg , wrapped up in fleecy hose , While t'other held beneath his nose The Public Ledger , in whose columns ...
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... streets , though in most we do , and where it is agin law , it is two dollars fined in general way . Well , Sassy went down to Boston to do a little chore of business there , where this law was , only he didn't know it . So soon as he ...
... streets , though in most we do , and where it is agin law , it is two dollars fined in general way . Well , Sassy went down to Boston to do a little chore of business there , where this law was , only he didn't know it . So soon as he ...
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... street , on a wet , nasty day . It was not returned ; and on another wet , disagreeable day he called for it , but found his friend at the door , going out with it in his hand . " I've come for my umbrella , " exclaimed the lender ...
... street , on a wet , nasty day . It was not returned ; and on another wet , disagreeable day he called for it , but found his friend at the door , going out with it in his hand . " I've come for my umbrella , " exclaimed the lender ...
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... street in London , whom he immediately accosted thus : " Sir , may I inquire if you are anybody in particular ? " IN the supposed character of a university under- graduate , Hook says : " One problem was given me to work , which I did ...
... street in London , whom he immediately accosted thus : " Sir , may I inquire if you are anybody in particular ? " IN the supposed character of a university under- graduate , Hook says : " One problem was given me to work , which I did ...
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... street , and they sigh , passing by . Meet again , and it's plain that they're both nothing loth man and wife to be for life . " Dear , " says he , " you love me ? " " Yes , I do . Pray , do you love me too ? " Fondly ! " " La ! ask ...
... street , and they sigh , passing by . Meet again , and it's plain that they're both nothing loth man and wife to be for life . " Dear , " says he , " you love me ? " " Yes , I do . Pray , do you love me too ? " Fondly ! " " La ! ask ...
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Сторінка 366 - So the Deacon inquired of the village folk Where he could find the strongest oak, That could n't be split nor bent nor broke, — That was for spokes and floor and sills; He sent for lancewood to make the thills; The crossbars were ash, from the straightest trees, The panels of white-wood, that cuts like cheese, But lasts like iron for things like these; The hubs of logs from the "Settler's ellum...
Сторінка 133 - Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves is as true of personal habits as of money.
Сторінка 40 - The school-boy whips his taxed top ; the beardless youth manages his taxed horse with a taxed bridle, on a taxed road ; and the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid...
Сторінка 366 - Hahnsum kerridge" they called it then. Eighteen hundred and twenty came; — Running as usual ; much the same. Thirty and forty at last arrive, And then came fifty, and FIFTY-FIVE. Little of all we value here Wakes on the morn of its hundredth year Without both feeling and looking queer. In fact, there's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth. (This is a moral that runs at large; Take it.
Сторінка 40 - ... everything that comes from abroad, or is grown at home; taxes on the raw material; taxes on every fresh value that is added to it by the industry of man...
Сторінка 366 - n' all the kentry raoun'; It should be so built that it couldn' break daown: "Fur," said the Deacon, '"t's mighty plain Thut the weakes' place mus' stan' the strain; 'N' the way t' fix it, uz I maintain, Is only jest T' make that place uz strong uz the rest.
Сторінка 40 - His whole property is then immediately taxed from 2 to 10 per cent. Besides the probate, large fees are demanded for burying him in the chancel; his virtues are handed down to posterity on taxed marble; and he is then gathered to his fathers, — to be taxed no more.
Сторінка 367 - ... Fifty-five! This morning the parson takes a drive. Now, small boys, get out of the way! Here comes the wonderful one-hoss shay, Drawn by a rat-tailed, ewe-necked bay. "Huddup!" said the parson. — Off went they. The parson was working his Sunday's text, — Had got to fifthly, and stopped perplexed At what the — Moses — was coming next. All at once the horse stood still, Close by the meet'n '-house on the hill.
Сторінка 105 - THE BALLAD OF THE OYSTERMAN. IT was a tall young oysterman lived by the river-side, His shop was just upon the bank, his boat was on the tide; The daughter of a fisherman, that was so straight and slim, Lived over on the other bank, right opposite to him. It was the pensive oysterman that saw a lovely maid, Upon a moonlight evening, a sitting in the shade ; He saw her wave her handkerchief, as much as if to say, "I'm wide awake, young oysterman, and all the folks away.
Сторінка 366 - Now in building of chaises, I tell you what, There is always somewhere a weakest spot, — In hub, tire, felloe, in spring or thill, In panel, or crossbar, or floor, or sill, In screw, bolt, thoroughbrace, — lurking still, Find it somewhere you must and will, — Above or below, or within or without, — And that's the reason, beyond a doubt, A chaise breaks down, but doesn't wear out. But the Deacon swore (as Deacons do, With an "I dew vum...