Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1860-09-19
From the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Sept lsth.l
Artemus Ward Sees the Prince
..ur of wales.

M Trends ofthe Editorial Korpse ! rite
these lines ON British sile. I've bin follerin
Mrs Victory hopeful sun Albert Edard threw
Kanady with my unparalleled Show, and tho
haint made much in pecoonery pint of vew,
I've lernt sumthin new, over hear on British
Sile, whare they bleeve in Saint George and
the Dragoon. Prevs to cumin over hear
tawt my orgnist how to grind Rule Brittany
and other airs which is poplar on British Sile.
likewise iXt wax fgger up TO represent
Sir Edmun He'd the Govner GinraL The sta
toot | fXt up is the most versytile wax statoot
ever saw I've showd itas VIM Penn, Napole-
on Bonypart, Juke Of Wellington, the Bene-
ker Boy, Mrs Cunningham 4 varis other no
It'd persons, * also for sertin plrut named
Hix. I've bin so long amung wax statoots
that kin fix EN- up TO SCOT the tastes Of folks
& with sum paints | hev kin Civ their fasis a
beneverlent or 6endish look as the kase re-
quires. Civ Sir Edmun He'd a beneverlent
look, Il when sum folks who thawt they was
smart sed il dident look like Sir Edmun He'd
enymore than it did anybody else, sed,
That's the pint That's the beauty of the
Statoot 1t looks like Sir Edmun He'd or any
other man. You may kali it what yu pleese.
Eft don't look like anybody that ever lived,
then it's sertinly a remarkable Statoot well
worth seein. ! kali it Sir Edmun He'd. Yu
may kali it what you darn pleeseP had
| em thare.
At larst i've had interview with the Prince,
tho it putty nigh cost me my vallerble life.
| cawt glimps of him as he sot on the Pizarro
Of the hotel in Sarnia, & elbowd myself threw
crowd Of wimin, children sojers q Iniins
that was hangin round the tavern was
drawin near TO the Prince when red fased
man in Millingtery close grabd holt ofme and
axed me WHARF was goin all so bold2
| ITO see Albert Edard the Prince Of Wales,
sez /; ''who be your
| He sed he was Kurnal Of the Seventy Fust
Regiment Her Magisty's troops ] told him
| hoped. the Seventy Onesters was in good
health and was passin by when he ceased hold
of me agin and sed in tone Of INDECENT cir
prise
"What2 Impossible II kannot be Blarst
my hize, sir, did | understan yu to say that
you was actooally gon into the presents of his
Royal Iniss y
"Thafs what's the matter with me" ! re
piled
"But blarst my hize, sir, its unprecedented
It's orful, sir. Nothn' like it hain't happend
sins the Gun Power Plot of Guy Forks Ow
dashus man. who air yu2'
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