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Billings, Josh, 1818-1885 [1866], Josh Billings, hiz sayings. With comic illustrations. (Carleton, New York) [word count] [eaf674T]. To look up a word in a dictionary, select the word with your mouse and press 'd' on your keyboard.
“A suckcessful Rade,”—cutting oph a turnpike “Reserv'd Korps,”—this i take it means our “Bace of supplize,”— Unkle Samuel's pocketBook. “Pickitts,”—these are surplus chaps, who ar “An Armstise,”—giving the enema tu chances
“Militara Stratergee,”—trying to reduse a swamp “Lite Hoss Calvary,”—picked men who ride the “Rekrutin Ophisers,”—individuals who are cent “Armee Rashuns,”—back pay, and preserved “Quartring on the enemee,” this phraze is defunkted, “War Hoops,”—jist the things fur a hot da, the “Corte Marshall,”—where tha tri the misdemeners “Forage Partee,”—Them who goes out to kech
“On tu Richmond,”—that's tu sa if the kussed “Parralel lines,”—are them kind of lines that “Militara necessita,”—ten ophisers and a gallon “Onluce the dogs ov war;”—but muzzle the “War of Exterminashun,”—this fraze belongs “Advance Gard,”—this is a gard tha hav tu hav “Rere Gard,”—this is a gard that hav tu keep “Awl quiet on the Potermuck,”—this shows
Billings, Josh, 1818-1885 [1866], Josh Billings, hiz sayings. With comic illustrations. (Carleton, New York) [word count] [eaf674T]. |