. The comic English grammar; a new and facetious introduction to the English tongue . he Porpus i Have quit Lostmy Happy tight and am gettin wus and wus witchi Think yu ort to pitty Mee. i am Tolled everyDay that ime Gettin Thinner and a Jipsy sed thatnothin wood Cure me But a Ring. i wos a Long time makin my Mind Up to rightto You for of Coarse i Says jemes will think me tooforrad but this bein Leep yere i thout ide Make aPlunge speshialy as her grashius madjesty as Setthe Exampel of Popin the queshton, leastways toall Them as dont Want to Bee old Mades all theirblessed lives, so my Deer Jeme
. The comic English grammar; a new and facetious introduction to the English tongue . he Porpus i Have quit Lostmy Happy tight and am gettin wus and wus witchi Think yu ort to pitty Mee. i am Tolled everyDay that ime Gettin Thinner and a Jipsy sed thatnothin wood Cure me But a Ring. i wos a Long time makin my Mind Up to rightto You for of Coarse i Says jemes will think me tooforrad but this bein Leep yere i thout ide Make aPlunge speshialy as her grashius madjesty as Setthe Exampel of Popin the queshton, leastways toall Them as dont Want to Bee old Mades all theirblessed lives, so my Deer Jemes if yow want aPardoner for Better or for wus nows Your Timedont think i Behave despicable for tis my Luv foryu as makes Me take this Stepp. please to Burn this Letter when Red and ex-cuse the scralls and Blotches witch is Caused bymy Teers i remain till deth Yure on HappyVallentine jane you No 3 18 THE COMIC ENGLISH GRAMMAR. poscnp nex Sunday Is my Sunday out And i shall be Attthe corner of Wite lion Street pentonvil at a quaw-ter pas Sevn. Wen This U. Mee i- g-. ORTHOGRAPHY. 19 Now, to proceed with Orthography, we may re-mark, that A letter is the least part of a word. Of a comic letter an instance has already beengiven. Dr. Johnsons letter to Lord Chesterfield is acapital letter. The letters of the Alphabet are the represen-tatives of articulate sounds. The Alphabet is a Republic of Letters. There are many things in this world erroneouslyas well as vulgarly compared to bricks. Inthe case of the letters of the Alphabet, however,the comparison is just; they constitute the fabricof a language, and grammar is the mortar. Thewonder is that there should be so few of English letters are twenty-six in is nothing like beginning at the beginning;and we shall now therefore enumerate them, withthe view also of rendering their insertion subsidiaryto mythological instruction, in conformity with theplan on which some account of the Heathen Deitiesand
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