Comick actor’s Yankee talk

Tuesday, 30 March 2010 00:00

March 30, 1837. From the St. Catharines Journal:

Young Davirage, the Comick Actor, writes and speaks as good Yankee as any man on stage. For example—

“Our folks want to know if your folks’ll come down tonight to see our folks, and fetch all your folks along?

All the fellers must put on their yellerest vests and stiffest collars, and fetch all the gals, and I’ll bet a hunk of gingerbread to a glob of ‘lasses candy, that you’ll have a bunkum time.”