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...Indade, sor, and it's very good it is for you to be a asking" afther the loike o' us, and I'll be afther a tellin' yer all you'd loike ter know if no harm'll come...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Goodies. | 1/23/1885 | See Source »

...haven't got nuthin' agin the gintlemin at the college and I don't mind, tillin' yer a few things. The gintlemin's always pretty good to us ; we gits poor pay and if now and thin we takes a few things, yer know, of no rale value, why who kin blame the loike o' poor us? We've got ter live somehow, yer knows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Goodies. | 1/23/1885 | See Source »

...that cigarette, will yer?" or similar remarks such as we have been accustomed to hear form the "mucker." It is manifestly impossible. Another theory that has been offered is that the "mucker" is a sort of gnome or underground sprite, bent on evil. Evidently this is a far more complete theory than the other, although it in turn fails in certain points. The latest theory is that they are a development or manifestation of Spencer's "Unknowable," and this brilliant thought is as yet receiving hearty approval. How long it will be accepted is, of course, another question...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/16/1884 | See Source »

Union Railway driver to inquisitive student, "Yes, it is purity hard going", yer see so many hoses has got this year spinnel maginnis." [Fact...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 2/15/1884 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/20/1883 | See Source »

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