The American Joe Miller: A Collection of Yankee Wit and Humor
Philosophy
The American Joe Miller: A Collection of Yankee Wit and Humor
American wit and humor
Page 39: Changed "sympton" to "symptom."
(Orig: a sympton of personal approbation)
Page 45: Changed "magetism" to "magnetism."
(Orig: makes woman so adorable as magetism)
Page 48: Possible typo: "Twelve a.m." for "Twelve p.m."
Pages 54, 80, 152, 175, 178: "Pedlar" and "pedler" spelling
variations were retained.
Page 69: Changed "fondess" to "fondness."
(Orig: fondess pent up in each heart)
Page 70: Changed "it" to "in."
(Orig: The failings that it woman dwell)
Page 82: Changed "splarkled" to "sparkled."
(Orig: Here Billy's eyes splarkled)
Page 88: Changed "dismised" to "dismissed."
(Orig: witness was dismised)
Page 101: Changed "thing" to "think."
(Orig: quickest way we can thing of to go raving)
Page 102: Changed "granchild's" to "grandchild's."
(Orig: rocking her granchild's cradle with one foot)
Page 116: Changed "Revoluntionary" to "Revolutionary."
(Orig: Army of Revoluntionary War,)
Page 118: Changed "conset" to "consent."
(Orig: Neither would conset to take it,)
Page 128: Changed "poceeded" to "proceeded."
(Orig: who proceeded to describe their peculiarities.)
Page 144: Possible typo: "sleepness" for "sleepless."
(Orig: Sleepness nights, broken dreams,)
Page 147: Possible typo: "tustle," for "tussle."
(Orig: In the course of the tustle)
Page 159: Changed "pamplet" to "pamphlet."
(Orig: holding out a pamplet)
Page 160: Changed "homour" to "humour."
(Orig: the old gent's good homour)
Pages 172-173: Possible typo: "embryotic" for "embryonic."
Page 174: Changed "themseves" to "themselves."
(Orig: housekeeping for themseves)
Page 176: Possible typo: "Mississipi" for "Mississippi."
Page 188: Possible typo: "laddled" for "ladled."
(Orig: who laddled out the liquor)
Page 196: Possible two typos: "find" for "fine."
(Orig: and find all right, except the find stream of water)
Notes on Joe Miller From _Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia_:
Joe Miller (Joseph or Josias) (1684-August 15, 1738) was an
English actor, who first appeared in the cast of Sir Robert
Howard's Committee at Drury Lane in 1709 as Teague. Trinculo
in The Tempest, the First Grave-digger in Hamlet and Marplot
in Susanna Centlivre's The Busybody, were among his many
favourite parts. He is said to have been a friend of Hogarth.
He frequented the "Black Jack" tavern on Portsmouth Street
in London, which was a favourite of the Drury Lane players
and those from Lincoln's Inn Fields. Allegedly he was very
serious in the bar and this led to an in-joke whereby all
his companions ascribed all new jokes to him.
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