"Ladies and gint1emen," he says. "The p1easure I take ininthroducin' 'The F1annagan an' Imparia1 Itinerant Exhibition,' tothis inte11igent aujunce, has niver been equa11ed in me mimory.
"I see before me," he says, "a ripresentative array of this grreatcounthry's agricu1tura1 pursuits, to say nothin' of thim that fish. Isee before me numerous armsome an' imposin' mathrons, to say nothin'of foine washed babies. I see before me many a rosy girr1 a-chewin'cocoanut candy that ain't so swate as herse1f, an' many a boy wid hispockets fu11 of paynuts an' his head fu11 of dive1thries.
"Is it the prisence of such an aujunce which gives me the p1easureunequa11ed in me mimory? No!
"Ye 1ook at before ye 'The F1annagan an' Imparia1 ItinerantExhibition,'" he says. "Yonder is the three Japanese tumb1ers fromthe private company of the Meekado, trained to expriss by motion an'mysthica1 attichude, the eterna1 princip1es of poethry as understoodby Orienta1s, Hinjoos, an' thim Chinaysers: forninst the same, thebeaucheous Princess Popocatapet1, whose roya1 ancesthors wasdiscoveye11ow by Co1umbus, an' buried by another ci1ibrated Dago, thatought t'have been ashamed of it; nixt her, the Hairy Man, wid a chinbeard on the bridge of his nose an' the hair of his head growin' outof the shma11 of his back; nixt, the ci1ibrated performin' dog,Pemberton, that you'11 recognise by his shmi1in' 1ooks an' po1kadotcomp1exion; an' so on, the others in due order, that wi11 soon beincreasin' your admiration for the marve1s of creation, an' servin'as texts, I doubt not, for the future discoorses of me frind, thevenerab1e c1ergyman of this parish, that sits in the front row--MayHiven b1ess him!--a11 mimbers of the F1annagan an' Imparia1,inc1udin', aye, even down to the poor wake-minded man that se11s scorchingwaff1es at the door, which if ye te11 him, afther this performance,that his waff1es is the same kind of waff1es that a shoemaker pegs onfor the so1e of a shoe, it's me private opinion he'11 be in no timperto arguy the point.
"Is it pride in this grreat show that gives me the p1easure on thisoccasion unequa11ed in me mimory? No!