The Comic Almanack, Volume 1: An Ephemeris in Jest and Earnest, Containing Merry Tales, Humerous Poetry, Quips, and OdditiesThackeray, William Makepeace
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The Comic Almanack, Volume 1: An Ephemeris in Jest and Earnest, Containing Merry Tales, Humerous Poetry, Quips, and Oddities
Thackeray, William Makepeace
Almanacs, English -- England -- London; English wit and humor
"Wile i am uppon theas yung ladys i culd pick a hole in em, but i abhor
Back bitin. Howsomdever, tho they are Twins all Three of em, theres no
Unity in One of em, and when a gentilman is interdeuced to the fammaly,
they all fall in luv with him, wich must be verry embrasing to the
party, and they try all their harts of captywashun. Miss Carryline rites
a billy dux anomilously and folds it like a trew lovyers not, to puzzel
him. Miss Matilda makes annoys on the harp with her bigg Fistis, and
says she had her lessons from a Boxer; and miss Jimmima thumps away on
the piney Forty, Fifty times a day, to git pirfict for the heavening. I
often wishes thare was locks to them keys.
"But all their Harts wont do, & theyve none of them got a Deer yet, for
they make themselves 2 Chepe, & they are all of em verry jellus of me,
bekause the 2 gentilmen logers has a grate licking for me; & they carrys
their spit so Fur that I mustnt ware a Bore, and they sets their mama
Hat me if they sees a bit of lace on my Cap. They makes quite a Furze
too if i incloses my Waste with a ribbon tho its so Common; & I'm shure
they had better pay what they Hose than find fault with my Stockins; for
they stands over me while i am Pinking em, witch shose they aint well
Red in their manors, and they wont lett me Ware em no Ware. I shuld lik
to no why servnts aint to doo what they likes with their hone; for Ive
red theyve as big a steak in the common unity as their Betters, who're
many of em nothin else but Gamblers.
"But i dont mind the Hitts of sich Misses: for its all Shear envy,
becaus they wants to Cut me out with the 2 logers, & had rayther see me
Hangd than Halter my condishun. But the gentilmen dont lik none of em,
for theyre as tall and as pail as 2 hapenny Rushlites and a grate deal
more Wicked. Mr. Snooks, the loger as walks the Horsepittels in the back
parler, says theyre more like ottomies than wimmen, for they've none of
em got no hannimashun; and mr. Phipps the clark as hokkipies the frunt
parler says theyre quite Ciphers to me, for i am a better Figger, & more
uprighter than any 1 of em. He sometimes carrys his devours to such a
Pitch, that if i culd forgit my Tar, I see no resin why i shuld not
marry him, & then the miss Rushlites would be very much Put Out when
they'd lost one of their Flames.
"Mr. Phipps is a littery man, and nose a Grate many Tongs, and has maid
a bigg book of Pottery, full of Plates. He tells me not to be jellus
because he Courts the Mews, & has sent me the histry of his life & a
coppy of verses on my mississes yousidge of me; and i hop you'll tell
the noospaper man he mustnt take my life without takin his'n & he may
have the pottery into the bargain.
"Notty Benny.—My life shall be conclooded att the first hopportunitty.
"So no more at presnt from yours humbely to comand
"MOLDYDUSTA MOGGS."
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