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Word: wellerli (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1873-1873
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...perpetual standing is eighty per cent, or thereabouts, the privilege of voluntary attendance at recitations. We speak with the highest possible respect for the men who head our rank-lists, when we call this a throwing of pearls before swine. We regard such a course, as the elder Mr. Weller did the sending of flannel "veskits" to the young niggers who would have no possible use for them. But this extravagant waste of unappreciated cuts will be the only step taken, if any, in this particular...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR REFORMS. | 3/7/1873 | See Source »

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