Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1886 — It's English, Ye Know. [ARTICLE]

It's English, Ye Know.

Swell—Say, Ckollv, mo boy, can you lend me five dollah? __ Anglomanic—Cawnt positively do it, me lad. That beastly old dad of mine lias cut me short fox the last month or so. I could only oblige you in a small way to-day. S. —Yaas. Aw—how much? A.—Five bob. S.—How much is that? A.—Ha! ha! ha! Doutcherknow ? Well, that’s too good! Five bob, me lad, is five shillings, five quarters, or a dollah and a quarter—see? S. —Y'aas, but why in the dayvil couldn’t you say one dollah an aquarter instead of five bob, and be done with it ? A.—Oh! that would be —aw —too beastly Amerwican, ye knaw. The other is English, me * lad.— Boston Courier . • •_