frawdylent

Updated: July 24, 2026

I should have instintly gone into the City and called a meetin of the leadin commercial men to condemn and repudiate, as a American, this gross frawd, if I hadn't learned at the same time that the draft given by the British subjeck in payment for this frawdylent sass was drawed onto a Bankin House in London which doesn't have a existance, but far otherwise, and never did.

Artemus Ward - The Complete Works of Artemus Ward — Part 5: The London Punch Letters