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Habits of close attention , thinking heads , Become more rare as dissipation spreads , Till authors hear at length one general cry Tickle and entertain us , or we die ! -Cowper . The author who speaks about his own books is almost as ...
Habits of close attention , thinking heads , Become more rare as dissipation spreads , Till authors hear at length one general cry Tickle and entertain us , or we die ! -Cowper . The author who speaks about his own books is almost as ...
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he said , " you hear dat , brederen an ' sisters ? You hear dat fool question I am axed ? Cain , he went to de land o ' Nod just as de Good Book tells us , an ' in de land o ' Nod Cain gits so lazy an ' so shif'less dat he up an ...
he said , " you hear dat , brederen an ' sisters ? You hear dat fool question I am axed ? Cain , he went to de land o ' Nod just as de Good Book tells us , an ' in de land o ' Nod Cain gits so lazy an ' so shif'less dat he up an ...
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The mother smiled , for the compliment was well merited , but she gasped as the child innocently continued her account : " I said to her , ' I am very glad to have you like my hair , but I am sorry to hear you use the word “ ain't ” !
The mother smiled , for the compliment was well merited , but she gasped as the child innocently continued her account : " I said to her , ' I am very glad to have you like my hair , but I am sorry to hear you use the word “ ain't ” !
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Porter Emerson came into the office yesterday . He had been out in the country for a week and was very cheerful . Just as he was leaving , he said : " Did you hear about that man who died the other day and left ...
Porter Emerson came into the office yesterday . He had been out in the country for a week and was very cheerful . Just as he was leaving , he said : " Did you hear about that man who died the other day and left ...
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Why , Aunt Easter , I was mighty sorry to hear about Ida" Marse John , Ida ain't nuvver tuk dem chickens . Ida wouldn't do sich a thing ! Ida wouldn't demeange herse'f to rob nobody's hen - roost - and , any way , dem old chickens ...
Why , Aunt Easter , I was mighty sorry to hear about Ida" Marse John , Ida ain't nuvver tuk dem chickens . Ida wouldn't do sich a thing ! Ida wouldn't demeange herse'f to rob nobody's hen - roost - and , any way , dem old chickens ...
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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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