A WORD IN THE SWELL VOCABULARY.
A Yong gentleman in an office at Somerset House, was highly delighted by reading in the letter of the Alexandrian correspondent of the Morning Post, the statement, that the Suez canal, as contemplated by its projectors, would have to be excavated “by the labour of the fellahs of Egypt,” and that-
“Indeed it would be difficult for a foreigner to from an adequate idea of the disastrous and ruinous consequences to this country, if, as originally proposed, and insisted on as indispensable for the success of the undertaking, by M. Lesseps, this Pharaonio work bad to be executed by the labour of the Egyptian fellahs.”
“By Jove!” he exclaimed, “that fellah in the Morning Post is a deuced cleva fellah! Knows how to spell fellah. Those other fellahs deuced clever fellahs too – those phonetic fellahs – spell fellah same way. Shall always spell it so myself in fuchaw. Wish all the wawk a have to do to-day had to be executed by the labaw of those Egyptian fellahs.”
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