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Identifier: worldsalmaniacfo00chur (find matches)
Title: The World's almaniac for 1879 : a compendium of useless and interesting information
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Church, Frederick S. (Frederick Stuart), 1842-1924
Subjects: American wit and humor
Publisher: New York : World
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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16 —The Worlds Al?na?iiac for i8?g.— Hft? §in\e of the ^incitnt SJmttcr; Showing How He Sold the Hempress of Perus Laces to a Lady,and What Came of the Transaction. I. IT is an Ancient Mariner,And the door-bell ringeth he:By thy long red beard and cocked eye, What wouldest thou of me?He holds her with his cocked eye, His trousers he doth hitch,And thus spoke on that red-haired man,With many an avast and which. II. My ship is on the sea,—I mean, My ship is at the docks,And my boat is on the shore,—that is, At the boarding-house is my box.The good ship Caroline, eighty days Is she from Pernambu-Co, which she bears the choicest wares From the Kingdom of Peru. Peru ? Praps you ve the yellow fe— The lady interjected: Avast there—no ! (with a yo-heave-ho) Which the bark were disinfected:For they have slushed her topmasts down, And swabbed her magazine,And she hath been smoked and thoroughly soaked With acid quarantine:Which we, poor sailors, for three monce We cannot draw our p

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  • booksubject:American_wit_and_humor
  • bookpublisher:New_York___World
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