This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 Excerpt: ...is always distasteful and weak. Vividness and strength are the product of an easy commaud of those small, trenchant Saxon monosyllables which abound in the English language.--Leisure Hour. Arch Fund--"I wish to say to the congregation," said a minister, "that the pulpit is not responsible for the error of the printer ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 Excerpt: ...is always distasteful and weak. Vividness and strength are the product of an easy commaud of those small, trenchant Saxon monosyllables which abound in the English language.--Leisure Hour. Arch Fund--"I wish to say to the congregation," said a minister, "that the pulpit is not responsible for the error of the printer on the tickets for the concert in the Sunday-school room. The concert is for the benefit of the Arch Fund, not the Arch Fiend. We will now sing hymn six, 'To err is human, to forgive divine.'" Half--Irish Foreman, to gang of men in a sewer: "How many men is down in that hole?" Voice from the sewer: "Three, so rr." Irish Foreman: "Thin lave half of yez cum up." Scotch Logic--Visitor, to inhabitant of very small village: "But surely you must find it very dull here, never getting any newspapers. How d'you know what's going on in London, for instance?" Inhabitant: "Eh, mon, but dinna ye ken that th' folk in London are jist as ignorant o' what's gaun on wi' us? u--London Judy. The Honors Of War--An Irish orator was describing the horrors of a certain battle in the late FrancoPrussian war, and had at last succeeded in fixing the attention of his audience, when he suddenly excited a most rapturous burst of applause by thundering out, "And the sun sunk to rest, 'midst the groans of the dying and the shrieks of the dead." Deception--An English and an Irish sailor were in an engagement together. The former had his leg shot off, and asked Pat to carry him below to the doctor. Pat picked him up, and while carrying him off, another ball, unknown to Pat, carried off the Englishman's head. Some one told Pat it was no use carrying the man to the surgeon, for his head was off. "By m...
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