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THE PROGRESS OF SLANG

"WHY, WHAT A PRETTY NEW FROCK ALFRED HAS!"
Prodigy (who picks up everything so readily). "AH, AINT IT A STUNNER!"

Punch, Jul.-Dec. 1847