English
As She is Spoke:

or

A Jest in Sober Earnest.


With an Introduction by

JAMES MILLINGTON.


***


NEW YORK:
D. Appleton & Co., 1, 3, & 5 Bond Street.
1884.

No. 1.


The Parchment Paper Series.

EXCRUCIATINGLY FUNNY,” says The World, is “English as she is Spoke, or a Jest in Sober thought.”




EVERY one who loves a laugh,” says Fun, “should either buy, beg, borrow, or—we had almost said steal—this book; for in sober earnest we aver that it is not given to every one to ‘jest so.’”



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