Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1876-07-28
Listener VS.. Blabber.


Mr.. Editor - ] nbhor controversy with
Blabber just much now as ever, aud am no
more willing to ncquit him Of writing slang
than / was formerly never have designed
my letters to carry on controversy, but sim
| ply TO defend myself against Blabber's charges.
Ny a0td bene was intended to show him that
he had no room to complain of any ones ig-
norapce, and notas controversial chip"
Now, Mr. Editor, Blabber diskes that slang
of his just as much as any one else, for surely
he tried hard enough to cover it up in the
! FIRST letter he wrote after being accused OF
using it. but when be found he had not sue
ceeded and that it had openly and squarely
confronted him he goes 10 work and gives it
complete withdrawing, hoping, in this
way, TO conceal lis dirty face, but still il shows
in spite of him. Babber evidently showed
himself ignorant of the meaning of the word
slang, for he searched his dictionary TO ascer-
tam whether my definition nf it was right or
wrong, and then confesses that my judgment
corresponds with Websters. This done, he
begins TO whitewash by saying that | ought
TO have looked at my dictionary before | ex-
| posed my ignorance. Now, Mr.. e., am sure
your readers (Blabber excepted) to whom !
| left the decision not regard the first quo
| tation and the phrases referred to in The last
| two letters as nything mlder than slang. But,
| continuing to whiewash, he says: "Instead
| however, Of frankly admitting his error he
| tries to bolster up his reckless assertion, and
after ransackng Blabber's letters finds three
quotations that heattempts TO bring in the mean
ing OF the word slang, as he now understands
it," BE ii said TO his shame, that the three
articles of slang referred TO were all found ia
the same letter, and therefore did not require
aur ransacking of letters wish you TO put
the word quotations above in italics to call
Blabber's attention TO the improperly Of
using that word in. that connection; for did
not find them as quotations in his letters, but
as articles or parts of sentences and made them
quotations in mine.
All who are fond Of amusement can find
entertainment in reading Blabber's whiewash-
ed slang of the "Salt River Legend" where
he puts himself up as my teacher and begins
| TO teach me by telling me he don't know this
and don't that. wonder if he really knows
anything about in 1t strikes me as being
more fanciful than true; for surely no man as
intelligent as Blabber claims 10 be aud endow-
ed with memory suitable 10 accompany such
intelligence would be guilty of forgetfulness
Besides, !, MS his pupil, a1 anxious to know
all about this new science which he proposes
to teach, especially since il is so familiar that
be did not think there was "A sane person Of
ten years and older that was not familiar with
it. 1t was not taught in any of the schools
in which was pupil, and If 1t is 10 be
taught TO me now let me have a text book,
and let me not be tuught by list OF dont
knows After he has whiewashed this arti-
Gle Of slang with his ''Sat River legend, - be
asks if il is meaningless, and says if it is,
must charge the slang OF it TO the wife of that
defeated candidate. No, Rlabber, | can not
charge II TO her, for the language Is your own,
as reference to your letter containing IL viii
show sssese ID question is not quoted
and therefore belongs TO yourself. Don't try
and get out of it in that way, Babber. If
the language was hers, as you say it is, you
ought TO have put it in quotation. If we ac-
ccpt your explanation now, are we TO rid you
Of plagiarism Again, suppose ! accept your
story rs true and relate it 10 some one else,
shall ! say 'the only answer his wife gre