English as She is Wrote

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Unknown. English as She is Wrote

Prefatory

I.By the Inaccurate

II.By Advertisers and on Sign-boards

III.For Epitaphs

IV.By Correspondents

V.By the Effusive

VI.How she can be Oddly Wrote

VII.By the Untutored

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In the account of an inaugural ceremony it was asserted that "the procession was very fine, and nearly two miles long, as was also the report of Dr. Perry, the chaplain."

A Western paper says: "A child was run over by a wagon three years old, and cross-eyed, with pantalets on, which never spoke afterward."

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A farmer who wished to enter some of his live-stock at an agricultural exhibition, in the innocence of his heart, but with more truth in his words than he dreamed of, wrote to the committee, saying, "Enter me for one jackass."

An Irishman complained to his physician that "he stuffed him so much with drugs that he was ill a long time after he got well."

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