[Ads-l] Antedatings of "screwball"

[Amy West]

On 8/13/22 00:00, ADS-L automatic digest system wrote:
> Date:    Fri, 12 Aug 2022 08:15:34 -0400
> From:    Jonathan Lighter<wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
> Subject: Re: Antedatings of "screwball"
>
> And here's Skewie with long esses:
>
> https://tinyurl.com/4xtvvebt
>
> JL

I find interesting the typesetting error "Mhe" for "The" at the 
beginning of line 25 (Who mistakes an M for an T in typesetting? And 
it's correct 3 lines later) and the use of "cattle" to refer to the 
horses in line 29:

"These cattle were mounted away they fly"

---Amy West

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