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"Lor love yeh, ole John Hop," sez I, "yiv buried me in debt."

'Hello, Soldier!' Khaki Verse Edward Dyson 1898

Hodgfon making D«m to fignify tyrants, yiv according to feveral MSS. the part.

Notes critical and explanatory on the Books of Psalms and Proverbs, intended to correct the grammatical errors of the text from the collations of the mss. by D. Kennicott on the Psalms and by him and De Rossi on the Proverbs; and to restore and elucidate some corrupt and obscure passages, by comparing the mss. with the antient versions, the parallel places of scripture, the proposed emendations of many able critics, and submitting some further conjectural readings to the judgment of the learned Dimock, Henry, d. 1810 1791

Puzzling question and more puzzling answer followed in quick succession between the commander and Barny, who, in the midst of his dilemma, stamped about, thumped his head, squeezed his caubeen into all manner of shapes, and vented his despair anathematically: "O, my heavy hathred to you, you tarnal thief iv a long sailor, it's a purty scrape yiv led me into.

Stories of Comedy Rossiter Johnson 1885