The world of wit and humour, ed. by G.M. FennGeorge Manville Fenn Cassell, Petter, & Galpin, 1899 - 480 стор. |
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... the Bible at the same time , saying , with emphasis , intended as a sort of clencher to his argument , " I add no more . " " Because you canna ! " cried the old woman . THE GOUTY MERCHANT AND THE STRANGER . BY HORACE SMITH.
... the Bible at the same time , saying , with emphasis , intended as a sort of clencher to his argument , " I add no more . " " Because you canna ! " cried the old woman . THE GOUTY MERCHANT AND THE STRANGER . BY HORACE SMITH.
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... cried the terrified applicant for legal advice ; " it's I that have built the dam , and it's neighbour Jones that owns the spring ; and he threatens to sue me . " 66 The keen lawyer hesitated a moment before he tacked his ship and kept ...
... cried the terrified applicant for legal advice ; " it's I that have built the dam , and it's neighbour Jones that owns the spring ; and he threatens to sue me . " 66 The keen lawyer hesitated a moment before he tacked his ship and kept ...
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... cried out , " Well , sir , and you killed him also ? " " No , sir ; he killed me ! " 22 Is some of our towns we don't allow smokin ' in the streets , though in most we do , and where it is agin law , it is two dollars fined in general ...
... cried out , " Well , sir , and you killed him also ? " " No , sir ; he killed me ! " 22 Is some of our towns we don't allow smokin ' in the streets , though in most we do , and where it is agin law , it is two dollars fined in general ...
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... cried aloud , My fathers , where are they ? ' and echo responded , ' Is that you , Patrick M'Clathery ? " " " THE following advertisement is copied from a Dublin paper of the 29th August , 1805 : " Notice is hereby given that the fox ...
... cried aloud , My fathers , where are they ? ' and echo responded , ' Is that you , Patrick M'Clathery ? " " " THE following advertisement is copied from a Dublin paper of the 29th August , 1805 : " Notice is hereby given that the fox ...
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... cried , with still higher emphasis , " Weel , Gibbie , tha's the worst of a ' ! " By - and - by he alighted upon a passage of a nature infinitely more heinous than any of the rest , when , altogether losing patience , he cried out ...
... cried , with still higher emphasis , " Weel , Gibbie , tha's the worst of a ' ! " By - and - by he alighted upon a passage of a nature infinitely more heinous than any of the rest , when , altogether losing patience , he cried out ...
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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...