The Humorous Speaker: Being a Choice Collection of Amusing Pieces, Both in Prose and Verse, Original and Selected; Consisting of Dialogues, Soliloquies, Parodies & C. Designed for the Use of Schools, Literary Societies, Debating Clubs, Social Circles and Domestic Entertainment |
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... Nose vs. The Eyes . When I was Young .. DIALOGUE - Money Makes the Man . Sam Smith's Soliloquy . The Useful Young Man .. The Kiss in School ... Killing a Blue Bottle . A Jaunt to tho Wedding . .Douglas Jerrold 98 .Anon . 99 Thomas ...
... Nose vs. The Eyes . When I was Young .. DIALOGUE - Money Makes the Man . Sam Smith's Soliloquy . The Useful Young Man .. The Kiss in School ... Killing a Blue Bottle . A Jaunt to tho Wedding . .Douglas Jerrold 98 .Anon . 99 Thomas ...
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... 'll wing my flight , And pop on his nose ; and I'll bite , I'll bite ! There's a poet , I know , -in the still midnight He plies the pen by the taper's light , > f And wearied of earth , in a world The Mosquito's Song-A Soliloquy Anonymous.
... 'll wing my flight , And pop on his nose ; and I'll bite , I'll bite ! There's a poet , I know , -in the still midnight He plies the pen by the taper's light , > f And wearied of earth , in a world The Mosquito's Song-A Soliloquy Anonymous.
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... nose grows blue with the cold ; reads the newspaper all to himself , solaces his inner man with a hot cup of tea , and just as you are laboring under the hallucination that he will ask you to take a mouthful of fresh air with him , he ...
... nose grows blue with the cold ; reads the newspaper all to himself , solaces his inner man with a hot cup of tea , and just as you are laboring under the hallucination that he will ask you to take a mouthful of fresh air with him , he ...
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... nose on the cuff of his coat , and obeyed . " Pray , Master Eugene , " said the Markus , " which is the capital of Turkey ? " " Edinburgh , " replied Eugene . " What king did Oliver Cromwell behead ? " " William the Conqueror . " " What ...
... nose on the cuff of his coat , and obeyed . " Pray , Master Eugene , " said the Markus , " which is the capital of Turkey ? " " Edinburgh , " replied Eugene . " What king did Oliver Cromwell behead ? " " William the Conqueror . " " What ...
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... nose , it looks as if there was honesty on one side , and regard for it on t'other . Sir R. Why , to be sure , old Humphrey , you are as honest a - Pshaw ! the parson means to palaver us ! -But , to return to my position - I tell you ...
... nose , it looks as if there was honesty on one side , and regard for it on t'other . Sir R. Why , to be sure , old Humphrey , you are as honest a - Pshaw ! the parson means to palaver us ! -But , to return to my position - I tell you ...
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