Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 26, September 24, 1870 by Various
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page 33 of 82 (40%)
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It has what is called a "Double Echo."
I fully expected something of this kind. Now if there is anything I am particularly down on, it is those unmitigated frauds known as Echoes. And if I ever throw four sixes, it is when I am tackling some unsuspecting old ass of a watering place echo. I consider them "_holler_ mockeries." Of course we steamed within proper distance, and I seized the opportunity to "put a head on" this venerable two-ply nuisance, as follows: First, I read a page of a Patent Office Report I go armed with. This the Echo, with very little hesitation, repeated in duplicate as usual. From one side of the rock in English, and from the other in fair French. I saw at once that old EK was pretty well filled. Next I sang "Listen to the Mocking Bird," which it repeated very creditably indeed, dropping but two notes on the third verse. This it made up for, I am bound to admit, by throwing in some original variations in the chorus. But I hadn't played from my sleeve yet, so I recited HAMLET'S Soliloquy. |
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