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Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 17, July 23, 1870 by Various
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can go out during this act and indulge in his favorite beverage--gin and
milk.)


ACT III.

_Scene.--Lawn in front of Continental Hotel at Long Branch. Enter_
JENKINS, _disguised in a second-hand silk hat, and a claw-hammer coat,
with a hand-organ on his back. He stops before one of the windows,
grinds the hand-organ, and sings:_

Gaily the troubadour
Touched his or-gan,
As he came staggering
Home with a can--

(_Numerous heads put out of numerous windows_.)

[As all the following are said at the same moment, the reader is here
requested to take a long breath.]

_1st Window._ Stop that howling!

_2d_ " Dry up, you idiot!

_3d_ " Cork that organ!

_4th_ " Bust that music-box!

(And so on, _ad infinitum_, until all the supes are used up; the supes
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