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...Saturday last we were seeking Scott Stadium, scene of a football game. We halled a provender of football programs (25 confederate pesos by volume). "Man," he said, "ah reckon ah don't rightly know whar 'tis." Over the hill we came upon the Stadium. An usher stood in a grey uniform, "where's section A?" we asked. "Man, ah reckon ah don't rightly know, but you're on a one-way street. How'd you all get in heah...
Explanation. Last week, Mrs. Noggins sounded off on the dollar crisis. Said she: " 'Tis awful 'ard, you see, to realize you're goin' broke when you're spendin' your capital and 'avin' a whale of a time, same as poor Uncle 'Erbert when 'e mortgaged 'is 'ouse in Liverpool and lived like a prince until the sheriff arrived along with three widows, suin' for breach of promise. . . . Well, the way I read it, we can't pay for the goods we get from the States unless...
...signed with the good Irish name McNally, but the spinsters in the border town of Carrickmacross were not to be hoodwinked. Up & down the border they sent the rumor flying: "'tis the British want our cats. They'll eat them, and they're that hard up for a rag to put on their backs, they'll even skin them." From Carrick to Ballyshannon and back to Castleblayney the old maids nodded and locked up their pets. "Men are even stealing cats to sell to the British," said one woman to a TIME correspondent last week...
...Tis irritating, no ? So why not write The magazine and ask TIME who he was (Or she) who wrote the piece with such...
...Well," she said, "here 'tis Christmas again and I haven't got any presents...