The Fellow in the Corner.

Free Lance, Volume V, Issue 259, 17 June 1905, Page 9

The Fellow in the Corner.

There's the fellow in the coiner on the fiivt mglit of the play, Though the piece 1^ a mastei -piece — the sensation of tl n e day. Though it gives the critics thrills and makes the gl.id box office dance When the house is -old from aisles to eave> full six weeks in advance. Still he says "Pooh-pooh' I'll eat mv hat If I couldn't do As well as that'" There the Fellow in the Coiner when the novel makes a hit And is blazed acn o*=s the country aw the Literal y It, When the wise are sayine; "Genius!" and the publishers, crow sleek Bv the large demand, fai twenty thousand copies every week. Still he says "Pooh-pooh' I'll eat mv hat If I couldn't do As well as that'" There's the Fellow in the Corner always putting out the fire When the flamtb of public sentiment are kindling to admire, Be it Preachni" Painting, Pugilism Business, Beauty daft He awaats the opportunity to pilant his rusty s>haft With his little "Pooh-pooh' I'll eat m- hat If I couldn't do As well as that '" These Fellows in the Corner, it's beyond a doubt they could

Revolutionise the cwno^ in a minute — if they would — And when thev'ie good and lendv they'll ie\eail before our oy<"i Wlwit a really olever piMH>n can accomphsli wlien he trie^ Then the world will sa\ "We'll cat oui liat H we couldn't do \s ivell cus tJiat '"