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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... Wives . Anon . 238 .Murphy 238 .Haliburton 240 . .Anon . 242 .Major Jones 243 Shakspeare 245 Anon . 246 ..Fielding . 247 Theodore Hook 253 .Humphreys 254 Shakspeare 255 .Hood 256 .Haliburton 257 .Merrick 259 Oulton 261 Saxe 264 . Anon ...
... Wives . Anon . 238 .Murphy 238 .Haliburton 240 . .Anon . 242 .Major Jones 243 Shakspeare 245 Anon . 246 ..Fielding . 247 Theodore Hook 253 .Humphreys 254 Shakspeare 255 .Hood 256 .Haliburton 257 .Merrick 259 Oulton 261 Saxe 264 . Anon ...
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... Wife . Lodgings for Single Gentlemen . The Rich Man and The Poor Man . The Man of Two Shadows ... DIALOGUE - The Sycophant's Road to Success . The Fakenham Ghost ... DIALOGUE - Triumph of Principle . DIALOGUE - Cowardice and Boasting ...
... Wife . Lodgings for Single Gentlemen . The Rich Man and The Poor Man . The Man of Two Shadows ... DIALOGUE - The Sycophant's Road to Success . The Fakenham Ghost ... DIALOGUE - Triumph of Principle . DIALOGUE - Cowardice and Boasting ...
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... wife , very bad when it follows us . fashion , people are bewitched to get into it ; it is also like bad . weather , most people are glad when they get out of it . We shall now mention a cause , called " Bullum versus Boatum " : it was ...
... wife , very bad when it follows us . fashion , people are bewitched to get into it ; it is also like bad . weather , most people are glad when they get out of it . We shall now mention a cause , called " Bullum versus Boatum " : it was ...
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... wife is tall , For I am small , And she is tall , of it ! And when I speak , of it ! For I am small , My voice is weak , And she is tall , But hers - she makes a gong of it ; And that's the short and long of it . She has , in brief ...
... wife is tall , For I am small , And she is tall , of it ! And when I speak , of it ! For I am small , My voice is weak , And she is tall , But hers - she makes a gong of it ; And that's the short and long of it . She has , in brief ...
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... wife . Currie . And I in my own right ; and this is , no doubt , the reason why we have been called to hear the reading of the will . ' Squire Drawl knows how things should be done , though he is as air - tight as one of your beer ...
... wife . Currie . And I in my own right ; and this is , no doubt , the reason why we have been called to hear the reading of the will . ' Squire Drawl knows how things should be done , though he is as air - tight as one of your beer ...
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