United States or Puerto Rico ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
A rich man, and settled in business, John Lummox concluded that he would marry Mary Bike. With that far-sighted logic which had always characterized him he reasoned that, having first met her on a liner, he would find her again on one if he took passage to Europe. He did but she was down on the passenger list as Mrs. Edwin Wraggles. The result of their interview was given to Mrs.
Wraggles, I'd be askin' ye to marry me. Then the gal ups and sez, sez she: 'But I AIN'T Mrs. Wraggles, sez she; 'Mrs. Wraggles is my sister, and couldn't come, so I'm travelin' on her ticket, and that's how my name is Wraggles on the passenger list. 'But why didn't ye tell me so at once? sez Lummox.
Bigsby by Dan'l Borem in his own dialect. "Ez far as I kin see, it was like the Deacon's Sunday hoss trade, bein' all 'Ef it wassent. 'Ef ye wasn't Mrs. Wraggles, sez Lummox, sez he, 'I'd be tellin' ye how I've loved ye ever sence I first seed ye. Ef ye wasn't Mrs. Wraggles, I'd be squeezin' yer hand, sez he; 'ef ye wasn't Mrs.
Word Of The Day