[Ads-l] "Heavens to Betsy!" 1857

[Stephen Goranson]

FWIW, "suz" in OED is associated with "sirs"; in Green's with "sis."
SG
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Subject: [ADS-L] "Heavens to Betsy!" 1857

In a story, "The Serenade: a Tale of Revenge," by Frederick W. Saunders, in "The Flag of Our Union" {Boston] March 28, 1857. p. 100 col. 2 (p. 4 of the issue).

[A character at night runs into a clothesline, hitting his neck.]
<start>
"Heavens to Betsy!" he exclaims, clapping his hand to his throat, "I've cut my head off."
"Not quite, or you wouldn't  yell loud enough to wake the dead," replied Dick.<end>

This same story (p. 4 c.1) includes <start>
But alas! and O dear suz!
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S. Goranson
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