HUMOR OF ARTEMUS
We can forgive Artemus Ward anything, says the Spectator, for the freedom, for the self-surrender of the laugh he arouses. The world has not known many writers who could make her laugh out loud, and when she finds that golden gift she can ill afford to criticise. And," indeed, the humour of Artemus defies analysis. Why do we laugh when he quotes:
‘ 2 soles with but a single thawt, , ' 2 harts which beet as 1/ ■ or when he talks of * whirling in the messy darnce,’ or asks rhetorically ‘ shall we sell our birthrite for a mess of potash.’
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New Zealand Tablet, 12 June 1913, Page 61
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101HUMOR OF ARTEMUS New Zealand Tablet, 12 June 1913, Page 61
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