Two Centuries Hence.
(Frcm t 1 e American Manufacturer.) Scene —Library in the house of an elderly gent, somewhere in Australia. Old gent telegraphs to the kitchen, and waiter ascends in a balloon. Old Gent: John, fly over to Calcutta and tell Mr Johnson that I shall be hippy to have him to sup with me. Never mind your coat, now. Go. (John leaves, and at the end of five mi mites returns.) John : Mr Johnson says he will come ; he has got to go to St. Potersburgh for a moment, and then he will be here. Old Gent: Very well, John. Now start the machine for setting the table, and telegraph to my wife’s room and tell her that Mr Johnson is coining, then brush up my bal loon, for I have an Engagement in London at 12 o’clock. John flics, and the old gentleman runs over to the West Indies to buy a fresh nrangv. |
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Cromwell Argus, Volume V, Issue 233, 28 April 1874, Page 3
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157Two Centuries Hence. Cromwell Argus, Volume V, Issue 233, 28 April 1874, Page 3
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