The world's wit and humor: an encyclopedia of the classic wit and humor of all ages and nations, Том 2Lionel Strachey Review of reviews Company, 1905 |
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... L. CLEMENS , " Mark Twain " ( 1835- ) . Colonel Mulberry Sellers · The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County • 276 284 Acknowledgments Acknowledgments and thanks are gratefully made to the following American Wit and Humor.
... L. CLEMENS , " Mark Twain " ( 1835- ) . Colonel Mulberry Sellers · The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County • 276 284 Acknowledgments Acknowledgments and thanks are gratefully made to the following American Wit and Humor.
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... LOUISA MAY ALCOTT . AMERICAN PUBLISHING COMPANY , Hartford : " Colonel Mulberry Sellers , " " The Notorious Jumping Frog , " by MARK TWAIN . B. P. Shillaber- " Mrs. Partington " Fancy Diseases " xii American Wit and Humor.
... LOUISA MAY ALCOTT . AMERICAN PUBLISHING COMPANY , Hartford : " Colonel Mulberry Sellers , " " The Notorious Jumping Frog , " by MARK TWAIN . B. P. Shillaber- " Mrs. Partington " Fancy Diseases " xii American Wit and Humor.
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... frog , i must confess that i hav coppied the whole thing , " verbatus ad liberating , " from the works ov a selebrated French writer on natural history , ov the 16th sentry . The frog iz , in the fust case , a tadpole , aul boddy and ...
... frog , i must confess that i hav coppied the whole thing , " verbatus ad liberating , " from the works ov a selebrated French writer on natural history , ov the 16th sentry . The frog iz , in the fust case , a tadpole , aul boddy and ...
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... frog tew hurt ennyboddy who paid his honest dets and took the daily papers . I don't reckoleckt now whether a frog has enny before leggs or not , and if he don't it ain't ennyboddy's bizzness but the frog's . Their hind leggs are used ...
... frog tew hurt ennyboddy who paid his honest dets and took the daily papers . I don't reckoleckt now whether a frog has enny before leggs or not , and if he don't it ain't ennyboddy's bizzness but the frog's . Their hind leggs are used ...
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... frogs through the stream of mud that gently rolled along the street . The co- quettish mule had small feet , a nicely trimmed tassel of a tail , perked - up ears , and seemed much given to little tosses of the head , affected skips and ...
... frogs through the stream of mud that gently rolled along the street . The co- quettish mule had small feet , a nicely trimmed tassel of a tail , perked - up ears , and seemed much given to little tosses of the head , affected skips and ...
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