The Cyclopaedia of Wit and Humor: Containing Choice and Characteristic Selections from the Writings of the Most Eminent Humorists of America, Ireland, Scotland, and England ...William Evans Burton D. Appleton, 1859 |
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... half a flitch of bacon . A spinning - wheel , One peck of meal , A knife without a handle , A rusty lamp , Two quarts of samp , And half a tallow - candle . could tell her the cause of the obscurity . " FATHER ABBEY'S WILL . 3.
... half a flitch of bacon . A spinning - wheel , One peck of meal , A knife without a handle , A rusty lamp , Two quarts of samp , And half a tallow - candle . could tell her the cause of the obscurity . " FATHER ABBEY'S WILL . 3.
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... half to death , To see them run such races . Old Uncle Sam came there to change Some pancakes and some onions , For ' lasses - cakes to carry home To give his wife and young ones . But I can't tell you half I see , They kept up such a ...
... half to death , To see them run such races . Old Uncle Sam came there to change Some pancakes and some onions , For ' lasses - cakes to carry home To give his wife and young ones . But I can't tell you half I see , They kept up such a ...
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... half powder and half lace , - Nice as a bandbox were his dwelling - place ; He's the gilt paper , which apart you store , And lock from vulgar hands in th ' escritoire . Mechanics , servants , farmers , and so forth , Are copy paper of ...
... half powder and half lace , - Nice as a bandbox were his dwelling - place ; He's the gilt paper , which apart you store , And lock from vulgar hands in th ' escritoire . Mechanics , servants , farmers , and so forth , Are copy paper of ...
Σελίδα 41
... half - hour . After that period , you may venture your feet out , and lean back in your chair . By the end of the second half - hour , you may put your feet over the fire - place , and if your visitor stay two hours , and be somewhat ...
... half - hour . After that period , you may venture your feet out , and lean back in your chair . By the end of the second half - hour , you may put your feet over the fire - place , and if your visitor stay two hours , and be somewhat ...
Σελίδα 45
... half - dozing cow , chewing the cud , and standing patiently to be rained on , with wreaths of vapor rising from her reeking hide ; a wall- eyed horse , tired of the loneliness of the stable , was poking his spectral head out of a ...
... half - dozing cow , chewing the cud , and standing patiently to be rained on , with wreaths of vapor rising from her reeking hide ; a wall- eyed horse , tired of the loneliness of the stable , was poking his spectral head out of a ...
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