. Kings of the platform and pulpit ... : personal reminiscences and anecdotes of noted Americans. 38 EINOS OF TEE PLATFORM AND PULPIT. This story hasnt any thing to do with my entertainment, I know but one of the principal features of my entertainment is that it contains so many things that dont have any thing to do with it. My orchestra is small but I am sure it is very good—so far as it goes. I give my pianist ten pounds a night — and hiswashing. I like music. I cant sing. As a singes 11 am not a success. I amsaddest when I sing. So are those who hear me. They are saddereven than I am. The o
. Kings of the platform and pulpit ... : personal reminiscences and anecdotes of noted Americans. 38 EINOS OF TEE PLATFORM AND PULPIT. This story hasnt any thing to do with my entertainment, I know but one of the principal features of my entertainment is that it contains so many things that dont have any thing to do with it. My orchestra is small but I am sure it is very good—so far as it goes. I give my pianist ten pounds a night — and hiswashing. I like music. I cant sing. As a singes 11 am not a success. I amsaddest when I sing. So are those who hear me. They are saddereven than I am. The other night some silver-voiced young men came under my window and sang — Come where my love lies dreaming. 1 didnt go. I didnt think it would be correct. I found music very soothing when I lay ill with fever in Utah and I was very ill 1 was fearfully wasted. My face was hewn down to nothing—and my nose was so sharp I didnt dare to stick it into otherpeoples business—for fear it would stay there-—and I should never get it again. And on those dismal days a Mormon lady she was married
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