WHERE WILL THEY STOPE
Our American cousins are exerting tbeir inventive faculties in a very active, it* not in a very laudable, maimer to improve the mother tongue, which is their in common with our own. We heard, wuen the President took bis holiday trip, that he had " excurted " from Washington ; and anuld lady whose house had been robbed, and who bad been putinto mortal terror of her life, was said to have been "burgled." But what they are likely to do with defective verb* this extract may fairly serve to show : When quietly Jo steal he sto'e, His bags of chink he chunk, And tunny a wicked smile he stuole, And many a wiuk lie wunk.
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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 118, 2 June 1871, Page 3
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117WHERE WILL THEY STOPE Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 118, 2 June 1871, Page 3
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