Monkeyess

Here’s monkey Wieland, the youth of Old Drury, / Whose acting alone filled the manager’s purse; / His ma wa’n’t a monkeyess, I can assure ye, / But he certainly must have had one for his nurse. / Dear creatures: we can’t do without one, &c.

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The gown of the small shopkeeper’s wife may have been made by the dressmaker of the duchess, and the former may be the more ladylike woman of the two; but being without the substance that warrants the show, she is a monkeyess.

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I say if this theory be correct, and man was originally a monkey and woman a monkeyess, then the job was not such a big thing after all—for any enterprising Yankee could, for a small consideration, have half a dozen generations of mixed varieties running in less than a month manufactured out of our Iowa soil.

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Darwin’s Monkey.—If Adam’s father was a monkey, / And Eve’s mother a monkeyess; / Then mastiffs firstly sprang from poodles, / A kennel of sprightly yankey doodles; / And that accounts for style and dress.

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