This identical theater as hires ye. Hev ye heerd on him?—Hasdrubal Jopp!
So ye hev, I declar! Oh, it's likely the same,
Which I knew him out thar (indicate the United States by a vague jerk of your thumb). And I reckon it's Fame,
If a broken-down blizzard like you—(No offence!)—kin look so at his name!
(By the word "so" you should suggest a movement of pleased
surprise on the part of the Sandwich-man.)
Can't ye stay for awhile—Till I've opened my head?
So he's bin an' struck ile? Which the same's what I said—
Fur I see him in Fish outer Water, and sez I (sententiously), "A Tragedian bred!"
Yes, I allays allowed, As he must make a hit;