ghoti

Thu Dec 21 19:24:06 UTC 2006

Essentially the same joke about "Turner" appears in Charles C. Bombaugh's _Facts and Fancies for the Curious from the Harvest-fields of Literature_ (Phila.: Lippincott, 1905), p. 97. (With thanks to Google Books.)

  JL

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