The ʻshaggy Dogʼ Story: Its Origin, Development, and Nature (with a Few Seemly Examples) |
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This sort of trick played upon the listening or the reading public obviously arises from the pleasanter sorts of mischief inherent in all those human beings who take neither others nor themselves too seriously , too solemnly ...
This sort of trick played upon the listening or the reading public obviously arises from the pleasanter sorts of mischief inherent in all those human beings who take neither others nor themselves too seriously , too solemnly ...
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I don't believe in that sort of nonsense . ' ' Don't you ? ' said the other — and vanished . That embryonic ghost - story has been ( falsely , I think ) attributed to ' A. J. Alan ' , the famous B.B.C. teller of stories from January ...
I don't believe in that sort of nonsense . ' ' Don't you ? ' said the other — and vanished . That embryonic ghost - story has been ( falsely , I think ) attributed to ' A. J. Alan ' , the famous B.B.C. teller of stories from January ...
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At about four o'clock there were noises in the road , so I got up and looked out , and there was my sergeant and an inspector doing a sort of fox - trot backwards and forwards — having a great time . No , it wasn't a fox - trot , it was ...
At about four o'clock there were noises in the road , so I got up and looked out , and there was my sergeant and an inspector doing a sort of fox - trot backwards and forwards — having a great time . No , it wasn't a fox - trot , it was ...
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| Title | The ʻshaggy Dogʼ Story: Its Origin, Development, and Nature (with a Few Seemly Examples) |
| Author | Eric Partridge |
| Edition | 3 |
| Publisher | Philosophical Library, 1954 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 4 Mar 2008 |
| ISBN | 0802212794, 9780802212795 |
| Length | 107 pages |
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