How do you like that?

Stella. (Fiercely.) I don’t like it.

Festus. No? Perhaps you prefer some other style of delivery. (Reads with a drawl.)

“‘We awe thwe bwethwen aw-out of Spain,

Come to court-aw your dawtaw Jane-aw.’”

Stella. Oh, do read some thing else!

Festus. Certainly.

“Hi diddel diddel! the cat and the fiddle!

The cow jumped over the moon”—