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Show I Not to lie nought. The resultR of uoinK big words in con-versation con-versation with people who do not understand under-stand them are often htnghable. Iu Boston Bos-ton there is a lady of literary aspirations who talks even with her servants in a sort of literary way. The other day an Irish servant frirl employed in this lady's house entered a neighboring grocer's shop and asked: "1X yeknpo anny anny delub- fwhat in the worrld is it, amiyhow? anny de-lilierat de-lilierat ion, is it, now? Do ye sell anny of that:" "Any what?" exclaimed the procwr. i "Anny delihoratiou, I say." i "No, we don't." "Mores the pity, thin. Snre, my mi.sth-ress mi.sth-ress told mo to wash the cut glass dishes wid dclileration, and thin sho wint away, and niver a dhrop af the shtoof ran I foind in the honso!" Youth's Companion. |