. Kings of the platform and pulpit ... : personal reminiscences and anecdotes of noted Americans. CUB BNCOTOSTTBR WITH THE INDIANS. passing all around me thickly in wagons on their wayto the battlefield.* But there were too many of these Injuns. There were forty of them — and only one of me and so I said: Great Chief, I surrender. His name was Wocky-bocky. * Their Way to the Battlefield. This was the great joke of Artemus Wards first lecture, The Babes in the Wood. He never omitted it in any of his lectures, nor did it lose itspower to create laughter by repetition. The audiences at the Egypti
. Kings of the platform and pulpit ... : personal reminiscences and anecdotes of noted Americans. CUB BNCOTOSTTBR WITH THE INDIANS. passing all around me thickly in wagons on their wayto the battlefield.* But there were too many of these Injuns. There were forty of them — and only one of me and so I said: Great Chief, I surrender. His name was Wocky-bocky. * Their Way to the Battlefield. This was the great joke of Artemus Wards first lecture, The Babes in the Wood. He never omitted it in any of his lectures, nor did it lose itspower to create laughter by repetition. The audiences at the Egyptian Hall, London, laughedas immoderately at it as did those of Irving Hall, New York, or of the Tremont Temple, inBoston.
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