Chicago Vanquished by Boston
Footpad (presenting pistol) — ' Fork ove* your rhino, and be quick about it. ? Near-sighted Bostonian — ' Beg pardon ? (Sternly). •No monkeying ! Unliniber! i'roduce the scads !' 'Pardon me but I do not exactly apprehend the drift of your • Cheese your ratter ! Don't you see I've got tie chop? Unload your boodle ! • I am totally at a Joss, my dear sir, to perceive the relevancy of your observations, or to — ' Clap, a stopper on jour gab and whack up, or I'll let her speak. Turn out your bundle quick ! Get a equirin on you V 'Is there any peculiarity in the external seeming of my apparel or demeanour, sir, that impels you, a total stranger, to ' • Once more, you bloke, will you uncork that swag ?' (Hopelessly bewildered.) •My friend, I confess my utter inability to gather any coherent idea from the fragmentary observations you have imparted. There is something radically irreconcilable and incapable of correlation in the vocabularies with which we endeavour to make the reciprocal or correspondential interchange of our ideas intelligible. You will pardon me if I suggest that synchronization of purpose is equally indispensable with homogeneity of celebral impress, as parallelism of idiom and ' (But the highwayman had fled in dismay.)
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Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 12, 15 July 1890, Page 4
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204Chicago Vanquished by Boston Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 12, 15 July 1890, Page 4
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