America To-day, Observations and Reflections by William Archer
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FOOTNOTES: [Footnote V: Mr. Walkley reports that he has heard a Cockney policeman, speaking of a street row, "There's been a little scrappin'."] [Footnote W: "About a dozen ringers followed us into the church and stood around rubberin'." "Gettin' next to the new kinds o' saddles and rubber-neckin' to read the names on the tyres."--_Artie_. A writer in the New York _Sun_ says: "I first heard the term 'rubbernecks' in Arizona, about four years ago, applied to the throngs of onlookers in the gambling-houses, who strove to get a better view of the games in progress by stretching or bending their necks."] [Footnote X: "We didn't break into sassiety notes, but that cuts no ice in our set."--_Artie_.] [Footnote Y: Extract from a letter to the _Chicago Evening Post_: "I do not at all subscribe to the sneering remark of a talented author of my acquaintance, to the effect that there were not enough cultured people in Chicago to fill a grip-car. I asked him if he meant a grip-car and a trailer, and he said, 'No; just one car.' And I told him right there that I could not agree with him."] THE END |
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