Punch . ONDON CHA1RIVARI. 203 VAGUE PEOPLE. R. Punch must have ob-served a certain class ofpersons which ousrht tocome under the VagrantAct, on account of theirbeing wanderers. Le JuifErrant, if he ba living now,would be a fool to thesewanderers. 1 am speakingof wanderers in conversa-tion ; idle, careless people,too idle to rummage up theright word for the rightplace, too careless to haveany sort of regard for theconfusion of their auditors,or the possible results oftheir own laziness. Theirsave - ourselves - troubletheory is that one wordis as good as another,and their : defence is amisapplic
Punch . ONDON CHA1RIVARI. 203 VAGUE PEOPLE. R. Punch must have ob-served a certain class ofpersons which ousrht tocome under the VagrantAct, on account of theirbeing wanderers. Le JuifErrant, if he ba living now,would be a fool to thesewanderers. 1 am speakingof wanderers in conversa-tion ; idle, careless people,too idle to rummage up theright word for the rightplace, too careless to haveany sort of regard for theconfusion of their auditors,or the possible results oftheir own laziness. Theirsave - ourselves - troubletheory is that one wordis as good as another,and their : defence is amisapplication of Shak-speares love-sick obser-vation, viz., that a rosemight be called a gasome-ter, and yet retain its de-licious perfume. They havea Vague Dictionary, where-in the words Thingummy,Whatyoumaycallem, Thing-ummyjig, stand for any substantives, adjectives, or even proper names,and in their Vague Grammar the Personal Pronoun is , the Personal Pronoun of Vagueness, is thus declined:—. Ace. WhatshisnameGen. WhatshisnamesDat. To WhatshisnameVoc. Here, Whatyoumaeallem IAM. With Whatshisname Whatshername With Whatshername To ThingummyHi! Thingumbob !From Thingummy Thiugumtniea have become in our whatsitsname the last whatyoumay-callem of resort. In the case of the Queen, v. Whatshername, given atgreat length in Whatshisnames Reports, it was distinctly laid down thata Thingummyjig, unable to come to a unanimous whatyoumaycallem,might be lawfully discharged. But this Court, accepting the soundlogical reasoning of Chief Justice Thingumbob, must hold that thewhatyoumaycallem of a thingummyjig is no bar to a whatsitsname. Thethingummy of the Court below is consequently re-whatyoumaycallemd. Some of the disciples of the New Vague School have adopted certainset phrases for the better conveyance of various meanings, thus, forexample, All that sort of thine:, etcetera, aud so forth. Instance.—One of the N
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