"I would like to know what they think we could do in Scotland," I said; "those chaps never could understand me."
"Well, my goodness," said my wife, "if they can understand each other they shouldn't have any trouble understanding us."
Probably the line that has been jumbled up and spoken wrong more times on the stage than any other is
"I am still fancy free and heart whole."
Try it; and see how many ways there are to go wrong on it.
At Keith's Theater in Boston one week the program announced that two of the acts to be seen that week were—
"Cressy & Dayne; The latest importation in trained animal acts."
and—