The Socratic mode of argument is the only true mode of chopping logic,
because it proceeds altogether on the principle of axing questions.
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'ARRY PUTS 'EM RIGHT.
The _Daily Chronicle_--recently suggested that the plural of rhinoceros
is a disputed point. 'Arry writes: "What O, _Mr. P._, 'disputed'?--not a
bit. Any kiddy as 'as 'ad 'arf an eddication knows what the plural of
''oss' is, don't he? No matter as to its bein' spelt ''os' or ''oss.'
Plural, anyway ''osses.' 'Bus-'os'--'Bus-'osses.'
'Rhinocer-os'--'Rhinocer-osses.' That's as plain as an 'aystack, ain't
it?"
"Yours,
"'ARRY."
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DEFINITION FOR A DINER-OUT.--An unlicensed wittler, quoth our worthy
'ost.--'ARRY.
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[Illustration: FERVOUR IN THE FOG
_Unpromising Individual (suddenly--his voice vibrating with passion)._
"She's moy unney;
Oim 'er joy!"]
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"Ah!" exclaimed, enthusiastically, a hairdresser's assistant who had
been out for a holiday. "'Ind 'Ead, in Surrey! That's the place for
hair!"
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THE REAL LONDON PRIDE.--We know an inveterate Cockney who declares that
London milk beats the country milk, and beats it "_by many chalks_."
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