. The comic English grammar : a new and facetious introduction to the English tongue . rum? Do you like pine-apple rum? means, Is it possiblethat instead of disliking, you are fond of pine-apple rum ? Do you like pine-apple rum? is an enquiry as towhether you like that kind of rum in particular. And lastly, Do you like pine-apple rumf is equiva-lent to asking if you think that the flavour of the pine-ipple improves that especial form of well-known instance of an emphasis improperly placed 124 THE COMIC ENGLISH GRAMMAR. was furnished by a certain Parson, who read a passage inthe Old T
. The comic English grammar : a new and facetious introduction to the English tongue . rum? Do you like pine-apple rum? means, Is it possiblethat instead of disliking, you are fond of pine-apple rum ? Do you like pine-apple rum? is an enquiry as towhether you like that kind of rum in particular. And lastly, Do you like pine-apple rumf is equiva-lent to asking if you think that the flavour of the pine-ipple improves that especial form of well-known instance of an emphasis improperly placed 124 THE COMIC ENGLISH GRAMMAR. was furnished by a certain Parson, who read a passage inthe Old Testament in the following unlucky manner: And he said unto his sons. Saddle me the ass; and theysaddled hiniy Young ladies are usually very emphatic in ordinarydiscourse. What a little dear ! Oh ! how siveetly pretty !Well! I never did, I declare! So nice, and so innocent,and so good-tempered, and so aflfectionate, and s«cA acolour! And oh ! such lovely eyes ! and such hair ! Hewas a little duck \ he was, he was, he loas. Tzig a tzigtzig, tzig, tzig, tzig! &c. &c. & PROSODY. 125 This emphatic way of speaking is indicative of two veryamiable feelings implanted by nature in the female occiput,and called by the Phrenologists Adhesiveness and Philo-progenitiveness. Those who attempt to imitate it will beconscious, while forcing out their words, of a peculiarmental emotion, which we cannot explain otherwise thanby saying, that it is analogous to that which attends theact of pressing or squeezing; as when, with the thumbof the right hand, we knead one lump of putty toanother, in the palm of the left. Perhaps we might alsoinstance, sucking an orange. In all these cases, the organof Weight, according to Phrenology, is also active; andthis, perhaps, is one of the faculties which induce youngladies to lay a stress upon their words. Nevertheless, wefear that a damsel would hardly be pleased by being toldthat her weight was considerable, though it would, at thesame time, grievously off
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