The ʻshaggy Dogʼ Story: Its Origin, Development, and Nature (with a Few Seemly Examples) |
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I didn't hear it myself , but I'm told that it was one of A. J. Alan's ten - or - so most successful broadcasts ; its narrative merits are manifest and very considerable . Also : ' A Coincidence ' unmistakably represents , on a large ...
I didn't hear it myself , but I'm told that it was one of A. J. Alan's ten - or - so most successful broadcasts ; its narrative merits are manifest and very considerable . Also : ' A Coincidence ' unmistakably represents , on a large ...
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They are told here as my friend Sidney J. Baker has told them to me . An anteater was ambling along the bank of a w minima Shuku creek when he happened to look in the water and P 81 The ' Shaggy Dog ' Itself.
They are told here as my friend Sidney J. Baker has told them to me . An anteater was ambling along the bank of a w minima Shuku creek when he happened to look in the water and P 81 The ' Shaggy Dog ' Itself.
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That story was told me by a Catholic , in an inimitable Irish brogue . The humour of it , however , depends , not on a brogue nor on an ability to speak Anglo - Irish : but simply on the essential ' shagginess and the delicious non ...
That story was told me by a Catholic , in an inimitable Irish brogue . The humour of it , however , depends , not on a brogue nor on an ability to speak Anglo - Irish : but simply on the essential ' shagginess and the delicious non ...
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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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