Step Lively! A Carload of the Funniest Yarns that Ever Crossed the Footlights
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Step Lively! A Carload of the Funniest Yarns that Ever Crossed the Footlights - George Niblo
George Niblo
Step Lively! A Carload of the Funniest Yarns that Ever Crossed the Footlights
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Step Lively!
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A CARLOAD OF THE FUNNIEST
YARNS THAT EVER CROSSED
THE FOOTLIGHTS. …
By
GEORGE NIBLO
Author of
B'Gosh,
and Atchoo!
STREET & SMITH, Publishers
238 William Street, New York
Copyright, 1903
By STREET & SMITH
Step Lively!
STEP LIVELY
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There, there, there! Don't make such a racket or you'll make me nervous.
The manager said to me this morning: Just give 'em a little nonsense, Mr. Niblo. You know a little nonsense, now and then, is relished by the best of men.
That's the reason he engaged me; said I was the most nonsensical man he ever knew. That's right. Laugh at me. Oh, I dearly love to see people's faces wreathed in smiles.
I've always been a seeker after fun myself.
Why, would you believe it, I once walked twenty miles to thrash a fellow—just for fun.
What's that—twenty more miles back again? Well, to tell you the truth, that didn't bother me.
You see, they carried me back in an ambulance.
I was thinking of telling you a ridiculous story about the dirty window, but I guess I'd better not.
You wouldn't see through it, anyway.
Instead of that let me relate a few amusing things that happened to me while I was on the road last summer.
I always start in a Pullman, and generally come back—well, what's the use telling family secrets?
While I was doing the Ohio theatres I spent some little time with an old friend.
He is engaged in a country school, and for five days in the week wrestles with the task of teaching the young idea how to shoot. I went to see him at work, and of course the scholars were more backward than ordinary. Just as the baby will never be cunning when strangers are around.
It was a lesson in geography that quite broke me up.
What is a cataract?
asked the pedagogue.
There was a complete frost.
No one had any idea apparently.
Well, what is meant by a cape?
said my friend.
This was better. One of the children knew it was a point of land jutting out into the water.
What is a strait?
Over in the corner a hand went up.
I know, teacher,
said a small boy.
Well, what is it?
It beats three of a kind,
was the triumphant answer.
Feeling a little indisposed while at Sandusky, I sauntered into an apothecary shop, intending to purchase some mild drug, to the use of which I am addicted, and which usually comes to us from Havana.
As I stood a moment after getting my light, an old country-man came shuffling in.
He was a character, I'm telling you; why, it stuck out all over his furrowed face just like the tracks of a lost hen in the mud.
I saw him pull out a red bandanna handkerchief and frown as he surveyed the big knot in the end.
You needn't smile—that old codger wasn't the first man to forget why he had tied a knot in his handkerchief or a string around his finger.
Well, uncle, what is it?
asked the clerk.
I'll get around to it pretty quick. Now, what place is it down yonder on the lake?
Do you mean Put-in-Bay?
Yep, that's it. Now, who was it that put in there?
Perhaps you mean Commodore Perry?
The very man. And I want a bottle o' Perrygoric.
I saw at once that man knew what he was after, and was bound to get it.
Sandusky seems to breed that species.
Why, when I was at the station, waiting with a big crowd for a train that was late, a wide-awake chap pointed out to me a poorly dressed woman who sat alone and apparently disconsolate.
Look here,
called out this fellow, raising his voice and getting a crowd about him, arousing immediate attention, this poor woman has no ticket to her destination. I'll chip in ten cents for her. Who'll help?
Presently he had