Hawk-eyed bus-tour agents mounting watch at the intersections, flaunting printed signs tucked in the bands of their visored caps to advertise their business, claim they can spot the hickster nine times out of ten.
It is a sort of broken Johnsonese, a barbarous patois, bearing the same relation to the language of Rasselas which the gibberish of the negroes of Jamaica bears to the English of the House of Lords
Business topics are discussed in a most peculiar style. One man takes the pipe from his mouth and says, Bill made a doogheno hit this morning. Jem, says another, to a man just entering, you'll stand a top o' reeb? On, answers Jem, I've had a trosseno tol, and have been doing dab.
Bill made a doogheno hit this morning.
Jem,
you'll stand a top o' reeb?
On,
I've had a trosseno tol, and have been doing dab.
Malebranche erects this proposition.
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