Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 722
ones practical knowledge to know some things,yet one would indeed lead a prosy life if one never didanything that did not make one very much the wiser.I thought perhaps the readers of the St. Nicholaswould like to hear the origin of the word tip. In the latter part of the eighteenth century, in… … THE HILL IN WINTER. BY JOHN GRIFFIN PENNYPACKER, AGE 15. (GOLD BADGE.) long, and soon, when people began to shorten every-thing, they dropped these cumbersome words and, usingthe initial letters, made the word tip. At one timethis word was considered slang, but now one can findit in the dictionary.…
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