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PEN AND PENCIL SKETCHES
enables me to rescue from oblivion the chorus only —
“Rat-a-tat-tat, with its feet pit-a-pat,
Beware of that monster — the lodging-house cat ! ”
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CARICATURE BY FREDERICK WALKER.
I was at once dubbed “the cat.” But Walker
soon tired of this, and I became the “ curly one,”
possibly in allusion to my hair, which was Hyperion-
like in those days. But Walker’s nicknames grew
into disuse, and became forgotten ; the one that has
survived, and will cling as long as I live, is “Marco,”
which is more melodious in sound, and comes more
“trippingly on the tongue” than my harsh and ugly
surname.
