The Penny-a-Liner at Home
Anon
Genre: | Dialogue, Spoof |
Subjects: | Geology, Zoology, Language |
During a conversation between the 'Penny-a-Liner' and his wife, the former refers to a dish as consisting of 'the rabbit from the Cambrian Principality, or the four-footed quadruped from a seaport not a hundred miles from Ostend'. | |
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