A YANKEE DEFINITION
Rufus Choate one© endeavored to make a witness give an illustration of absent-mindedness. ‘Wal,’ said the witness cautiously, ‘I should say that a man who thought he’d left his watch at hum, an’ took it out’n his pocket to see if he had time to go hum to get it— should say that that feller was a leetle absent-minded. '
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New Zealand Tablet, 16 October 1913, Page 62
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62A YANKEE DEFINITION New Zealand Tablet, 16 October 1913, Page 62
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