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• "I am really a lively man in a footrace, for my father is a watchmaker, and he has given me instructions in the business I fuf-fuf-fuf, fail to see huh-huh-how that applies," said Joe Gamp, a lad with a serious impediment in his speech Why, you see I have learned how to make good time," chuckled Danny Gamp roared with laughter. —  Frank Merriwell's Races
• I remember when the men used to be making hats in my father's establishment--for my father was the most extensive hatter in Dublin--I don't know if you knew my father was a hatter; but you know, sir, manufactures must be followed, and that's no reason why people shouldn't enjoy po'thry and refinement. —  Handy Andy, Volume One A Tale of Irish Life, in Two Volumes
• Meanwhile you had better run home, and tell your father--if, that is-- your father is at home, I suppose No, sir; father's dead Well then your sister or aunt--I suppose there's some relative at home older than yourself No, sir; none but mother an' me," whispered Jack No relations of any kind at all in London None, sir. —  The Coxswain's Bride also, Jack Frost and Sons; and, A Double Rescue
• Accordingly she rigged herself out in a suit of seaman's clothes, and as her father was a seaman,--an officer, of course, (my parentage was respectable on both sides)--and she knew all about seamen's ways and sayings, she very easily passed for one One fine morning, off she set in her new toggery for Portsmouth, where the Thunder was fitting out. —  Marmaduke Merry A Tale of Naval Adventures in Bygone Days
• My mother's only unhappiness arose from the thought of sending her to Philadelphia,--where she might have to complete her education, as she wished her to become as perfect a lady as our father was a thorough gentleman. —  In the Rocky Mountains

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