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Uncle Remus, on the meaning of the word "vice-versa," thus enlightened some colored compatriots the other day: "I cannot desplain pezactly," he said, "so to meet wid your compredehension, but wiser-wersa am an propriation from de Latn, and means wuss and wuss and mo' of it. I members stumblin' ober it at colledge. It am a hard word to pronounce...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VICE-VERSA. | 5/2/1883 | See Source »

...JULIUS, why did n't you oblong your stay at the springs?" "Kase, Mr. Snow, dey charge too much." "How so, Julius?" "Why, de landlord charged dis colored individual wid stealing de spoons...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 6/25/1875 | See Source »

...Wid the wind piercing shtraight through me bones...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JERRY MAHONEY'S (K. O. S. P.) PATRICK'S DAY. | 3/21/1873 | See Source »

...Wid the horse, and he shteppin' so hoigh...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JERRY MAHONEY'S (K. O. S. P.) PATRICK'S DAY. | 3/21/1873 | See Source »

...walkin' wid Micky Macgee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JERRY MAHONEY'S (K. O. S. P.) PATRICK'S DAY. | 3/21/1873 | See Source »

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