Word: yers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Union Railway driver to inquisitive student, "Yes, it is purity hard going", yer see so many hoses has got this year spinnel maginnis." [Fact...
First Street Arab - Say, Bill, be yese goin' ter take in commencement? Second Ditto - What commencement? F. S. A. - Why, Harvard, of course. S. S. A. - They be'n't goin' ter have none, this year. F. S. A. - How d' yer make that out? S. S. A. - Why, no LL. D., no governor, no Lancers, no punch. Where's yer commencement? - [Transcript...
...scene of a street Arab pursuing a fashionable, copies an old Punch joke of Charles Keene's, published several years ago. Harper's Bazar also lacks originality and copies a late joke from the Lampoon, entitled "Etiquette - 'But I can't let ye up stairs till ye've put yer name in the dish,'" with a drawing almost facsimile of the original, without, it is needless to add, due credit being given. All of which affords interesting reflections upon the degeneracy of public morals...
...sonny, I do' want nuthin'," Mr. Metcalf was saying. "Tell yer ma it's a Chris'mas present from me. Thet's all right, sonny," he added encouragingly, seeing that the boy hesitated...
...only throw the money in yer face, depend upon 't, Metcalf...