"Yes!" " Mother, I 've a favor to ask of you. If you are a-goin' to " Does she wear slippers ? " lick me, don't do it with a slipper; it always unmans me." "Yes!" " Well, then, you must be an awfully good feller if you don't know what a spanker boom is I " tog
Poor children · City and town life · American wit and humor, Pictorial
Internet Archive · Getty Research Institute · Public domain (published before 1931). Free to use for anything.
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