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Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush

CHAPTER X
19/87

My reason for crying out, Sir Jan, was because you mintioned Fraser at all.

Bullwig has every syllable of it be heart--from the pailitix down to the 'Yellowplush Correspondence.'" "Ha, ha!" says Bullwig, affecting to laff (you may be sure my ears prickt up when I heard the name of the "Yellowplush Correspondence").
"Ha, ha! why, to tell truth, I HAVE wead the cowespondence to which you allude: it's a gweat favowite at court.

I was talking with Spwing Wice and John Wussell about it the other day." "Well, and what do you think of it ?" says Sir John, looking mity waggish--for he knew it was me who roat it.
"Why, weally and twuly, there's considewable cleverness about the cweature; but it's low, disgustingly low: it violates pwabability, and the orthogwaphy is so carefully inaccuwate, that it requires a positive study to compwehend it." "Yes, faith," says Larner; "the arthagraphy is detestible; it's as bad for a man to write bad spillin as it is for 'em to speak wid a brrogue.
Iducation furst, and ganius afterwards.

Your health, my lord, and good luck to you." "Yaw wemark," says Bullwig, "is vewy appwopwiate.

You will wecollect, Sir John, in Hewodotus (as for you, Doctor, you know more about Iwish than about Gweek),--you will wecollect, without doubt, a stowy nawwated by that cwedulous though fascinating chwonicler, of a certain kind of sheep which is known only in a certain distwict of Awabia, and of which the tail is so enormous, that it either dwaggles on the gwound, or is bound up by the shepherds of the country into a small wheelbawwow, or cart, which makes the chwonicler sneewingly wemark that thus 'the sheep of Awabia have their own chawiots.' I have often thought, sir (this clawet is weally nectaweous)--I have often, I say, thought that the wace of man may be compawed to these Awabian sheep--genius is our tail, education our wheelbawwow.


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