DENNIS
I haven't found this elsewhere, either. It's from October 1830, "Rail
Shooting," pg. 68:
"Ask pardon; I was only wondering how you could shoot without any
locks." "The d---l you say--then 'I'm dennised.' So much for trusting
careless servants, and not cleaning one's own gun;--the fellow has put the
gun in the cover without the locks."
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