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Several more little things and so on and so on and so on.
Not that I wish to deny that his speech was exceedingly clever,
Or that we all of us paid him the greatest and deepest attention.
He was immediately followed by Tatham (N.B. to the printer;
Do not omit to put all proper names in capital letters,
Partly because it looks well and smacks of the penny-a-liner,
Partly to comfort our friends when we cannot afford them a Mr):
Much information he gave concerning a building he'd heard of,
Five were its doors and its size 250 x 80.
Jones was the next to arise; and he made us a crushing oration,
Crushing, but pointless withal, like a seventy-ton steam hammer,
(Study that last line well, observe the onomatopoeia),
Crushed Mr Smith with a hint that he had not neglected his Bulwer.
Not that I wish to deny that his speech was exceedingly clever,
Or that we all of us paid him the greatest and deepest attention.
He was immediately followed by Tatham (N.B. to the printer;
Do not omit to put all proper names in capital letters,
Partly because it looks well and smacks of the penny-a-liner,
Partly to comfort our friends when we cannot afford them a Mr):
Much information he gave concerning a building he'd heard of,
Five were its doors and its size 250 x 80.
Jones was the next to arise; and he made us a crushing oration,
Crushing, but pointless withal, like a seventy-ton steam hammer,
(Study that last line well, observe the onomatopoeia),
Crushed Mr Smith with a hint that he had not neglected his Bulwer.
Then Mr Wayte held forth, and his eloquence vied with his learning;
Oh for the tongue, or the pen or the pencil or something of some one,
Oh for the tongue, or the pen or the pencil or something of some one,
