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 Well, Sir, I have kept you a long time, and there's a great deal I have not told you after all; but you have perhaps heard enough to judge whether my Show deserves wholesale condemnation, For my part I cannot help thinking that the providing thousands of people with exactly the entertainment and amusement they like and can understand is not a business to be ashamed of.

My Love is beautiful as day— My Love is very fair: The gold gleam of the sunset ray Has nestled in Her hair. The gold that in the Sun is set Is all the gold that She will get; I love her well. But yetbut yet

My Round Rupee is greasy, dim— More light than He should be; Some bunnia must have "sweated" Him Before He came to me. All things that 'neath the Sun are set I know my round Rupee can get; I love Him well. But yetbut yet