The Vassar Girl and the Dog
A tiny period joke about a Vassar-educated daughter, a lapdog, and her exasperated father, printed as filler humor.
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Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 25, 1876 · Page 1
1 min readA sweet young creature who lives out on Angular street, and is just back from Vassar, appealed with tender pathos to her grim parent the other day: 'Paw, dear paw, can't you give Cabo away, and buy me a real brown black-and-tan to match my walking suit?' And because paw roared and scolded and said there were no brown black-and-tans in the market, she cried, poor girl. - Burlington Free Press Hawkeye
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