Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 398
itsupposed to have a beginning, in very ancientles, in the celebration of spring, when their Newar begins. Hfow it came to be what we everywhere find it, wise men cannot agree. The many authorities so divided, that I see no way but for us to ept the custom as we find it, wherever we may )pen to be,… … A VICTIM TO THE STRAP OIL JOKE. to buy the Life and Adventures of Eves Grand-mother, or to a cobbler to buy a few cents worthof strap oil,—strap oil being, in the languageof the shoe-making brotherhood, a personal appli- (72 FOURTH MONTH DUNCE. [April, cation of the leather. The victim usually gets…
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