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...ain't a-waitin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE WAITERS. | 9/27/1878 | See Source »

...ain't a-waitin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE WAITERS. | 9/27/1878 | See Source »

...came in with a column where a stick only was required. 'Do you desire a judicious elimination of the superfluous phraseology?' mildly returned the Harvard man. 'No! Boil it down!' thundered the city ed. The new man is gone now, - gone back to Boston. He says there ain't 'cultuah' enough in Philadelphia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS vs. HARVARD STUDENTS. | 9/27/1877 | See Source »

...interrupted; "I ain't that sort. What I did was to take four or five pools on Yale before I left here; they were twenty-nine to six, you know, before the game. Then I went down to New Haven and bet the rest of my pile, and lost it, but then I raked in on the pools enough to cover my shorts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POOLS. | 6/1/1877 | See Source »

...said the little man, "you 're desirous of submitting your head to the skilful manipulation of an experienced phrenologist. There's lots of lives wasted because people don't find out what they 're fitted for and what they ain't. Now I, sir, who have been a professor of this science for thirty-seven years and eight months will unfold to you, for the paltry sum of fifty cents, truths about yourself worth millions. Here, sir, is the most valuable thing you ever...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE AGED CALLER. | 4/20/1877 | See Source »

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