Word: ans
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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Cometh, hummeth an old-time air;
Coal will burn in an air-tight stove!
(This has been nicely calculated by an old observer, and lacks the possibility of failure, which is such a charm in "Old Probabilities.")
WE learn from an authentic source that the salary of our estimable night watchman has not yet been raised.
I know fellows who descend to the playing of mean tricks on duns. I was in Smith's room last week, when there came a suspicious knock at the door, - suspicious because it was unaccompanied by that vigorous kick on the lower panel which usually characterizes the summons of Smithie...