Perhaps.—An alderman being invited to attend a centennial jubilee, replied, " I can't attend this one, but I'll go next time." The Yankee Accent.—A good story is being told of George William Curtis, the poet. He prides himself, it is said, on his Euglish accent, eschewing the Yankee " drawl." Therefore, wheu he was over in London, and went to a tailor's, lie was not a little mortified at the master's exclaiming, " 'Any, show the Hamerican gentleman the flowery weskets I" -
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Hawke's Bay Times, Issue 1609, 8 September 1874, Page 349
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79Untitled Hawke's Bay Times, Issue 1609, 8 September 1874, Page 349
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