The Dickens Circle a Narrative of the Novelists Friendships
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' "There is another prose composition in the form of a catechism. This is performed by two gentlemen, and opens thus: "Question. — ^Vell, Mr. Bull, Sir, what is your private opinions vith respectin' to German sassages — fresh and imported. Sir, from Saxe Humbug and Go-to-her. ? "Answer (in a melancholy growl). — ^My opinion is. Sir, as they comes very dear. "Question. — Supposin', Mr. Bull, as these here foreign sassages wos to cost the country a matter of thirty thousand pound per annewum, who... do you think ought to spend that 'ere wast and enormous expenditer ? "Answer. — Them as awails theirselves o' the sassages aforesaid. (A laugh in the crowd. ) 244 THE DICKENS CIRCLE "Question. — Then, in your opinion, Mr. Bull, they're a dear commodity. ? "Answer. — I consider, Sir, as they would be uncom- mon dear at any price, and what I says is, let us revert to the good wholesome home-made dairy-fed native sas- sages — the Cambridge sassages of right down English manafacter — the Protestant sassages as our forefathers and Marshal Blucher fought and bled for.
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