ed themselves in front
of a small apple-treeto look picturesqueand commenced singing
their national songswhich appeared by no means difficult of
executioninasmuch as the grand secret seemed to bethat three
of the something-ean singers should gruntwhile the fourth
howled. This interesting performance having concluded amidst
the loud plaudits of the whole companya boy forthwith proceeded
to entangle himself with the rails of a chairand to jump over it
and crawl under itand fall down with itand do everything but sit
upon itand then to make a cravat of his legsand tie them round
his neckand then to illustrate the ease with which a human being
can be made to look like a magnified toad—all which feats yielded
high delight and satisfaction to the assembled spectators. After
whichthe voice of Mrs. Pott was heard to chirp faintly forth
something which courtesy interpreted into a songwhich was all
very classicaland strictly in characterbecause Apollo was
himself a composerand composers can very seldom sing their
own music or anybody else’seither. This was succeeded by Mrs.
Leo Hunter’s recitation of her far-famed ‘Ode to an Expiring Frog’
which was encored oncea
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