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THE COMIC ENGLISH GRAMMAR.

SECTION I.

OF THE PERSONAL PRONOUNS.

"Mr. Addams, don't be personal, Sir!"

"I'm not, Sir."

"You am. Sir!"

"What did I say, Sir?—tell me that."

"You reflected on my perfession, Sir; you said, as there was some people as always stuck up for the cloth; and you insinnivated that certain parties dined off goose by means of cabbaging from their customers. 1 ask any gentleman in the room, if that an't personal.

MEETING OF SELECTMEN