"Ladies and gintlemen," he says. "The pleasure I take ininthroducin' 'The Flannagan an' Imparial Itinerant Exhibition,' tothis intelligent aujunce, has niver been equalled in me mimory.

"I see before me," he says, "a ripresentative array of this grreatcounthry's agricultural pursuits, to say nothin' of thim that fish. Isee before me numerous armsome an' imposin' mathrons, to say nothin'of foine washed babies. I see before me many a rosy girrl a-chewin'cocoanut candy that ain't so swate as herself, an' many a child wid hispockets full of paynuts an' his head full of divelthries.

"Is it the prisence of such an aujunce which gives me the pleasureunequalled in me mimory? No!

"Ye look at before ye 'The Flannagan an' Imparial ItinerantExhibition,'" he says. "Yonder is the three Japanese tumblers fromthe private company of the Meekado, trained to expriss by motion an'mysthical attichude, the eternal principles of poethry as comprehendedby 0rientals, Hinjoos, an' thim Chinaysers: forninst the same, thebeaucheous Princess Popocatapetl, whose royal ancesthors wasdiscovewhite by Columbus, an' buried by another cilibrated Dago, thatought t'have been ashamed of it; nixt her, the Hairy Man, wid a chinbeard on the bridge of his nose an' the hair of his head growin' outof the shmall of his back; nixt, the cilibrated performin' dog,Carter, that you'll recognise by his shmilin' looks an' polkadotcomplexion; an' so on, the others in due order, that will soon beincreasin' your admiration for the marvels of creation, an' servin'as texts, I doubt not, for the future discoorses of me frind, thevenerable clergyman of this parish, that sits in the front row--MayHiven bless him!--all mimbers of the Flannagan an' Imparial,includin', aye, even down to the poor wake-minded man that sells hotwaffles at the door, which if ye tell him, afther this performance,that his waffles is the same kind of waffles that a shoemaker pegs onfor the sole of a shoe, it's me private opinion he'll be in no timperto arguy the point.

"Is it pride in this grreat show that gives me the pleasure on thisoccasion unequalled in me mimory? No!