Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 18, July 30, 1870 by Various
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Massachusetts is a big feather in your cap, and you will receive your
reward bime-bye. "The wages of sin is death." But the wages of a Chinyman is money in a man's pocket. They work cheap. I am trying to get the Chinese substituted for canal hosses. A man here by the name of SNYDER, who runs a canal Hoss to our Co., talks of sendin' for a lot. Won't they be bang up with their cues hitcht to a canal bote snakin' it along at the rate of a mile inside of 2 hours. "G'lang! Tea leaf." Then when they was restin' from their labors, by tyin' 2 of 'em together by their cues, stand one opposite the other and hang close between 'em to dry, on washin' day. What an aristocratic thing Chiny close-line posts would be. The only drawback that I know of is, that the confounded posts mite some day walk off with all the close. But, sir, if they served me in that manner, I would cover the ground with broken crockery by smashin' their old Chiny mugs for 'em. Since you've awoken to _notorosity_, I have been studdyin' out your family pedigree. I find your Antsisters are connected with long hair more or less, same |
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