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Billings, Josh, 1818-1885 [1868], Josh Billings on ice, and other things. With comic illustrations by J. H. Howard. (G. W. Carleton & Co., New York) [word count] [eaf675T]. To look up a word in a dictionary, select the word with your mouse and press 'd' on your keyboard.
This ill-bred game ov kards is about 27 years old. It was fust diskovered by the deck hands on a It is generally played by 4 persons and owes I have seen it played on the Hudson River Railroad, If yu play thare, yu will often hold a hand that Yewker is a mollatto game, and don't compare tew
I never play yewker. I never would learn how, out ov principle. I was originally created cluss to the Connektikut I play old sledge, tew this day, in its natiff fierceness. But I won't play enny game, if I know my charakter, I won't play no such kind ov a game, out ov respekt
Billings, Josh, 1818-1885 [1868], Josh Billings on ice, and other things. With comic illustrations by J. H. Howard. (G. W. Carleton & Co., New York) [word count] [eaf675T]. |