They are very alert, the modern Pompeians, to catch the note of national character, and I saw one of them pursuing an elderly American with a spread of hat-pins, primarily two francs each, and with the appeal, evidently studied from some fair American girl: Buy it, POPPA!
"Roman Holidays and Others"
W. D. Howells
Oh, POPPA, buy it!
"Roman Holidays and Others"
W. D. Howells
I thought you just wanted me to speak to POPPA.
"The Reverberator"
Henry James