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Show A Stick of Wood. Tommy was deeply engrossed in the dictionary, and his brow was wrinkled in concentrated thought. "Tommy," said his wither, "get me a stick of wood." "Ah. mother," replied Tommy, the grammatical portion of your education has been sadly neglected. You should say: 'Thomas, my son, transport from that recumbent collection of comhusti-ble comhusti-ble material on the threshold of this edifice one of those curtailed excrescences excres-cences of defunct log.'" Wheeler's Magazine. |