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AN ERROR:
Hostess (to gentleman her husband has brought home to dinner): "How well you speak English, Mr._____."
Mr. _____ (not understanding): "Yes, I 'ought to.'"
Hostess: "But you speak remarkably well."
Mr. _____: "I ought. I have lived here all my life. In fact, I was born in New York."
Hostess: "Why, how strange! I am sure my husband told me you were a Bohemian."
Artist: J. A. Mitchell
Source: Tom Harris, eBay seller lifehumormag
Restoration by: magscanner
- Created on
- Sunday 28 March 2010
- Posted on
- Sunday 28 March 2010
- Tags
- artist, language, misunderstanding, naive, status
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