Well, beg parding. You were’nt ask’d, that is, in a proper way;
Besides, goin’ courtin’ I s’pose. Ay, an’ likely, too, I say.
Well, let’s liquor up, old chap—my stars! I forgot, yer don’t.
It’s extrornery cert’nly, but if yer won’t, yer won’t.
I’d like to know you a deal, for you ain’t so stiffish an’ high.
Tarnation! hyar’s the boat. Look hyar: keep the bowie. good-bye!
William Wilkins.
From Kottabos. Trinity College, Dublin. Michaelmas Term, 1878.
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Joseph Swife, of Potiphar.