"you pays your money"

[Scot LaFaive]

While watching a Twilight Zone episode today I was struck by Rod Serling's
use of an ungrammatical form: "you pays your money, you takes your chances."
I thought this seemed out of the ordinary for him, so to Google I went.
Interestingly enough, this appears to be idiom of some usage. This person
claims to have an 1846 citation for it
(http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/37/messages/256.html).

Scot

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