And what var do’ee hop?
Is it acoz to preach to we,
Is comed the Lard Bishop?
Ees—he has comed to preach to we,—
Then let us aal strick up,
An’ zing a glawrious zong of praayze,
An’ bless the Lard Bishup!
Persons fond of economizing words, sometimes use figures (are they figures of speech?) and letters, in their stead. Thus, the fate of all earthly things is presented by the consonants DK—a view of the case entirely consonant with our own observation.
The following is a printer’s short-hand method of expressing his emotions: