CAN YOU REPEAT THIS?
When the actor Macklin was lecturing on memory, ho _ declared himsplf able to repeat anything by roto after a single reading. When the lecture was concluded. Samuel Foote handed to him the following since-famous farago of nonsense, _ and asked if he would kindly read it over once and repeat it; “ So she .went into the garden to cut a cabbage leaf to make pn apple-pie, and at the same time a great she-beav, coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. ‘W])at! no soap! ’ So she died, and she very impudently married the barber, and there were present the Piccaninnies, and the Jobillies, and the Garyulies, and the Grand Panjandrum himself, with the little round button at top, and they all fell to playing the game of catch-as-catch-can till the gunpowder ran out at the heel of their boots.”
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Evening Star, Issue 20053, 19 December 1928, Page 13
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145CAN YOU REPEAT THIS? Evening Star, Issue 20053, 19 December 1928, Page 13
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