Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1884 — How Slang Is Used in Boston. [ARTICLE]

How Slang Is Used in Boston.

“Dear, dear, where have you been, girls?” said a Boston mother to her daughters, who had returned late from an entertainment. “We’ve been carmining the municipality,”* giggled the eldest. “And observing the pachyderm,”! laughed the second. “And vociferating the female to an extraordinary elevation,”! chimed in the third. “Dear, dear, dear!” exclaimed the mother, in expostulatory tones. “There’s no harm done, mamma,” pouted the fourth, “everything;is amiable, and the fowl whose cackling was the salvation of Home is suspended at an altitude hitherto unknown in our experience.^ Explanatory chart: “Painting the town red. +Beeihg the elephant. tWhooping her up. is lovely and the goose hangs high. —Somerville Journal.