The Complete Works of Artemus Ward — Part 7: MiscellaneousWard, Artemus
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The Complete Works of Artemus Ward — Part 7: Miscellaneous
Ward, Artemus
American wit and humor
The Elephant is the most largest Annymile in the whole world. He
eats hay and kakes. You must not giv the Elephant Tobacker, becoz
if you do he will stamp his grate big feet upon to you and kill you
fatally Ded. Some folks thinks the Elephant is the most noblest
Annymile in the world; but as for Me, giv Me the American Egil and
the Stars & Stripes. Alexander Pottles, his Peace.
7.10. A POEM BY THE SAME.
SOME VERSES SUGGESTID BY 2 OF MY UNCLES.
Uncle Simon he
Clum up a tree
To see what he could see
When presentlee
Uncle Jim
Clum beside of him
And squatted down by he.
7.11. EAST SIDE THEATRICALS.
The Broadway houses have given the public immense quantities of
Central Park, Seven Sisters, Nancy Sykes, and J. Cade. I suppose
the Broadway houses have done this chiefly because it has paid them,
and so I mean no disrespect when I state that to me the thing became
rather stale. I sighed for novelty. A man may stand stewed veal
for several years, but banquets consisting exclusively of stewed
veal would become uninteresting after a century or so. A man would
want something else. The least particular man, it seems to me,
would desire to have his veal "biled," by way of a change. So I,
tired of the threadbare pieces at the Broadway houses, went to the
East Side for something fresh. I wanted to see some libertines and
brigands. I wanted to see some cheerful persons identified with the
blacksmith and sewing-machine interests triumph over those
libertines and brigands in the most signal manner. I wanted, in
short, to see the Downfall of Vice and Triumph of Virtue. That was
what ailed me. And so I went to the East Side.
Poor Jack Scott is gone, and Jo. Kirby dies no more on the East
Side. They've got the blood and things over there, but, alas!
they're deficient in lungs. The tragedians in the Bowery and
Chatham Street of to-day don't start the shingles on the roof as
their predecessors, now cold and stiff in death, used to when they
threw themselves upon their knees at the footlights and roared a
red-hot curse after the lord who had carried Susan away, swearing to
never more eat nor drink until the lord's vile heart was torn from
his body and ther-rown to the dorgs--rattling their knives against
the tin lamps and glaring upon the third tier most fearfully the
while.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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