16 Cases Hams 25 Spring Mattresses 2 Barrels Flour 2 Hair
ditto 22 Barrels Whiskey Bedding for same 1 Barrel Sugar 2 Mosquito-nets 1 Keg Lemons 29 Tents 2,000 Cigars Scientific Instruments 1 Barrel Pies 97 Ice-axes 1 Ton of Pemmican 5 Cases Dynamite 143 Pair Crutches 7 Cans Nitroglycerin 2 Barrels Arnica 22 40-foot Ladders 1 Bale of Lint 2 Miles of Rope 27 Kegs Paregoric 154 Umbrellas
A curious eye, privileged to take an account of stock and investigate behind the counter, would have discovered a barrel, yea, two or three barrels and half
ditto,--one containing flour, another apples, and a third, perhaps, Indian meal.
That, now, is what old Bowditch in his Epitome calls the zodiac, and what my almanack below calls
ditto. I'll get the almanack and as I have heard devils can be raised with Daboll's arithmetic, I'll try my hand at raising a meaning out of these queer curvicues here with the Massachusetts calendar.
"You shall have something," said he, "for you ought to feel disposed for refreshment after walking nobody knows how far on such a Canadian night as this; but it shall not be brandy-and-water, and it shall not be a bottle of port, nor
ditto of sherry.
"School is dismissed," answered Rose, and with a grateful "Thank you, heaps and heaps!" Phebe ran away singing the multiplication table as she set the tea
ditto.
Fairfax
ditto; you, I am persuaded, can suit me if you will: you puzzled me the first evening I invited you down here.
Sportsman looks on approvingly, and orders a
ditto for himself.
can't we bring it back reproduced: tenfold
dittos, the tide pools
