Special Words.
My mother she has'special words ; ... .. : .She's jihvavs using, but I find Tho" ones * tliatTvo most often heard Is-.-By-um-by and Never-mind. Whenever I can't havo my way,' \ '■ And beg her " when ?'•' and tease her "why Tho'things'she's, likeliest to say ■ Is Novcr-'mind and By-um-by. An' 'when our picnic' stopped bccuz Iti rained,-; or smnpin' of tho kind, , Tho only-things she told us was . Just: ; By-uinTby and' Never-mind.-" s.I ast when By-um-by; would be,— .Sho' told 1110 /'Never-mind!" so I ■ Said "What is Never mind?" and sho Said I'd discover By-um-by. Jily mother sho has spccial 'words. ■For question-answering and such, But I,guess s.omo that I have heard ... . Don't really mean so awful much. -BURG ES JOIINSON.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 75, 21 December 1907, Page 21
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116Special Words. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 75, 21 December 1907, Page 21
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