" Yes," said the mother, plaintively, "our darling babe cried piteously day and night till we gave him some of that patent medicine, and then he stopped and never cried any more; and—and—he never will," she added. The patent medicine makers don't see the joke in this. There is one word in our language which may be pronounced quicker by adding to its length and that is quick itself,
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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3817, 23 March 1881, Page 2
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68Untitled Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3817, 23 March 1881, Page 2
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