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...Behold! bad and unwholesome Butter is served 'at unto as daily; now let us therefore depute Asa, the Scribe, to go unto our Ruler, and seek Redress...
...There arose Asa, the Scribe, and went unto Belcher, the Ruler, and said, behold our Butter stinketh, and we cannot eat thereof; now give us we pray thee Butter that stinketh...
...upspurt lately enjoyed by the railroad industry, some enthusiasts have been led to talk as if, until the past year or so, American railroads were barren investments. A financial scribe compiled, last week, a list of the American roads with long dividend records which throws an interesting light on the subject...
...camp's cookhouses were drawn down between the tables by four-horse teams while tens of thousands of ravenous lumberjacks bounced on their benches for joy at the smell of the great Black Duck dinner cooked by Hot Biscuit Slim; that Johnny Inkslinger, Bunyan's scribe, slept only three hours each week and had 25 barrels of ink hooked up by hoses to his fountain pen; that Great Salt Lake came to be when Paul Bunyan hewed down the stone-tree forests of Utah-these and similar facts are a valuable increment to the Nation's stories...
...Beatsly furie", liquor, and Romance, spelled with a capital R, have been as sociated with football in its five hundred years of development. A more imaginative scribe has stated that the Romans played football but to this rumor there appears to be little foundation. The Romans did have a game which they played by standing around in a circle, and throwing four balls around at the same time, but this would appear to be more closely related to juggling than football...