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Van Dine's detective novels of the 1930s might have been mystified by the insertion into the dialogue of its lordly hero expressions like don'tcher know and the anathematized ain't .
But even though as a boy I lived on a ranch right on the Mexican border, I remember being mystified by ranching terms that crept into Western songs from north of us, cayuse, for example.
“I looked inside,” wrote the mystified reader, “but couldn't find him.”
The Times account leaves the Washington outsider reader mystified by so much tax-cutting zeal in one branch of the legislature and virtually none in the other.
On January 12th, 1989, Carole Leonard, who compiles a chatty column for The Times of items picked up on the Rialto in The City, reported that a “reader in Surrey” (not, for a change, “Disgusted,” Tunbridge Wells) received a tax form with the instruction “Send the cheque and payslip unfolded to the Collector in the envelope provided,” “I looked inside,” wrote the mystified reader, “but couldn't find him.”