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The city girl in the country offers a perennial source of amusement , as does the country man in the city . And the foreigner we have always with us , to mix his Y's and J's , distort his H's , and play havoc with the Anglo - Saxon Th ...
The city girl in the country offers a perennial source of amusement , as does the country man in the city . And the foreigner we have always with us , to mix his Y's and J's , distort his H's , and play havoc with the Anglo - Saxon Th ...
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Then in a horrified aside he added , " That's an awful age for a girl ! " THE PARSON ( about to improve the golden hour ) - " When a man reaches your age , Mr. Dodd , he cannot , in the nature of things , expect to live very much longer ...
Then in a horrified aside he added , " That's an awful age for a girl ! " THE PARSON ( about to improve the golden hour ) - " When a man reaches your age , Mr. Dodd , he cannot , in the nature of things , expect to live very much longer ...
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-Owen Meredith AMERICAN GIRL Here's to the dearest Of all things on earth . ( Dearest preciselyAnd yet of full worth . ) One who lays siege to Susceptible hearts . ( Pocket - books alsoThat's one of her arts ! ) ...
-Owen Meredith AMERICAN GIRL Here's to the dearest Of all things on earth . ( Dearest preciselyAnd yet of full worth . ) One who lays siege to Susceptible hearts . ( Pocket - books alsoThat's one of her arts ! ) ...
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The company in general listened to the story with admiration , but a merry - eyed American girl remarked : " Well , if he'd been my husband I should have replied , ' Alpheus , get up yourself ; I've thought of a bad word !
The company in general listened to the story with admiration , but a merry - eyed American girl remarked : " Well , if he'd been my husband I should have replied , ' Alpheus , get up yourself ; I've thought of a bad word !
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My fifty - four pieces consist of one pair of socks and a pack of playing cards . " One mother who still considers Marcel waves as the most fashionable way of dressing the hair was at work on the job . Her little eight - year - old girl ...
My fifty - four pieces consist of one pair of socks and a pack of playing cards . " One mother who still considers Marcel waves as the most fashionable way of dressing the hair was at work on the job . Her little eight - year - old girl ...
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| Pealkiri | Toaster's Handbook: Jokes, Stories, and Quotations |
| Editor | Harold Workman Williams |
| Compiled by | Clara Elizabeth Fanning, Harold Workman Williams, Halsey William Wilson |
| Edition | 3, reprint |
| Publisher | H.W. Wilson, 1916 |
| Original from | California Ülikool |
| Digitized | 11 dets. 2007 |
| Length | 483 pages |
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