[Ads-l] _nigger-knocker_: interdating

[Wilson Gray]

HDAS: 1883

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Selections from the Miscellaneous Writings of Dr. George W. Bagby
George William Bagby - 1884
FOUND INSIDE - PAGE 252
Billy Ivvins, in great wrath, has pulled out a hideous _nigger-knocker_,
and I have had a glorious nibble.
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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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