Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1889 — Verbal Snares. [ARTICLE]

Verbal Snares.

The popularity of Peter Piper’s celebrated peck of pickled peppers Jwill probably never wane as a snare to catch the tongue that ’fcould fain be agile;/ but that test has formidable rivals. The following short sentences, as their authors maintain, do wonders in baffling the ordinary power of •speech: Gaze on the gay gray brigade. The sea ceaseth, and it sufficeth us. Say, should such a shapely sash shabby stitches show ? Strange strategic statistics. Give Grimes Jim’s gilt gig-whip. Sarah, in a shawl, shoveled soft snow softly. She sells sea-shells. A cup of coffee in a copper coffee pot. Smith's spirit flask split Philip’s sixth sister’s fifth squirrel’s skull.