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Updated: June 11, 2025
How little, comparatively, the English "swop stories"! The Scotch are almost as much addicted as the Americans to this form of barter, so are the Irish. The Englishman has usually a dignified dread of dropping into his "anecdotage." The stories thus collected in America are the subsoil of American literary humour, a rich soil in which the plant cultivated by Mark Twain and Mr.
I have a vast store of them laid up, wherewith to wile away the tedious years of my anecdotage whenever it shall please Heaven to make me old. Some years that I passed in London as a working journalist are particularly rich in them. Ah! "we were a gallant company" in those days. I am told that the English are heavy thinkers and dull talkers.
The lively lady's anecdotage, dateless and confused, he could afford to despise as 'too void of method even for such a farrago, as Horace Walpole said of it. But the solemn Hawkins, as an old friend and executor of Johnson's will, was a more dangerous rival.
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