...you all know, from 'way down in Old Warginna, what I studdied edicashium and siance all for myself, to gib a corse of lectures on siance gineraly, an...events promiscuously, as dey from time to time occur." 35 It was an opening copiously repeated the century over. The collectors of comic and humor books often...

...example: "Ihah come from way down in ole Warginna whar I studded edicashun an' siance all for myself, to gib a corse of lectures on siance gineraly, an' events promiscuously, as dey time to time occur. De letter ob invit I receibed from de comitee from dis unlitened city, was full...