Under the title, Coming to the Point, this appears in the Jan 22, 1831 edition: “A young lady while walking with a gentleman, stumbled, and when her companion, to prevent her fall, grasped her hand somewhat tightly, ‘Oh, sir!’, she simpered, ‘if it comes to that, you must ask my pa!’ “
A sample of “humor” from the early Liberator
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