Vulgar words in A Tramp Abroad — Volume 05 (Page 1)
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The foreign words and phrases which they use have their exact equivalents in a nobler language-English; yet they think they 'adorn their page' when they say STRASSE for street, and BAHNHOF for railway-station, and so on-flaunting these fluttering rags of poverty in the reader's face and imagining he will be ass enough to take them for the sign of untold riches held in reserve.