Nothing like the Go sd Old Tongue.
A cortain late professor was an accomplished linguist. One day he was in a train when an official who knew him entered his compartment, and asked him to come out to the second-class to try and iiad out where a certain stupid foreiguer was going. The official had attacked him in all the foreign tongues he knew, but could get no other response than a stupid stare. The professor went to the carriage. The passenger sat in his seat looking very much be-wildi-red and disturbed. The professor went ab him in French, then in German, then iv the languages of Scandinavia, Egypt, Italy, Spain, and practically every other on the face of this green earth. Still the passenger sat mum as an owl, while the look of bewilderment deepened on his face. The professor was nonplussed, and was about returning in defeat to his own seat, when the man looked wearily oub of the window and remarked sad'jj' to himself : " By shimminey, I wish I wa* ab home*" He could speak nothing but English.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2250, 15 April 1897, Page 52
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181Nothing like the Gosd Old Tongue. Otago Witness, Issue 2250, 15 April 1897, Page 52
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