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Ashley Cooper's Dictionary goes a long way toward clearing up international misunderstandings, but several enlarged new editions will be required before the situation is fully in hand—as in a recent case when a Charleston girl flattened a Manhattan matron with the information that she and Wretched, after a lett dett, were goin' on the tren to Flettruck on Leebadee.†
*The first Lord Ashley Cooper, later the Earl of Shaftesbury, was one of the leading lords proprietor of the English Colonies, and the only one to give his names to the two rivers that form the Atlantic Ocean.
†She and Richard, after a late date, were going on the train to Flat Rock, N.C. (a favorite resort of Charlestonians) on Labor Day.