Surprising.
Yankee exaggeration is a trick that works both ways. It is most amusing perhaps when it takes the form of understatement. ' An old lady was alone in a very old house when the walls suddenly collapsed, and the house came tumbling down around her. Her escape was little short of a miracle, tut she was taken from the ruins entirely uninjured. When asked what, her sensations were when the house fell,-she said: "Well, to tell the truth, I was considerably skeered— l reely was."— Youth's Companion. . _
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Manawatu Herald, 28 July 1898, Page 4
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87Surprising. Manawatu Herald, 28 July 1898, Page 4
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