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The Lecture on the Mormons was thus announced to the
public of New York, when Artemus Ward first appeared
at Dodworth Hall:—
The Festivities at Dodworth Hall will be commenced
by the pianist, a gentleman who used to board in the same
street with Gottschalk. The man who kept the boarding-house
remembers it distinctly. The overture will consist of
a medley of airs, including the touching new ballads—“Dear
Sister, is there any Pie in the house?” “My gentle Father,
have you any Fine Cut about you?” “Mother, is the Battle
o'er—and is it safe for me to come home from Canada?”
And (by request of several families who haven't heard it)
“Tramp, tramp, tramp, the Boys are Marching.” While the
enraptured ear drinks in the sweet music (we pay our pianist
nine dollars a week, and “find him') the eye will be
enchained by the magnificent green baize covering of the
panorama. This green baize cost 40 cents a yard at Mr.
Stewart's store. It was bought in deference to the present
popularity of “The Wearing of the Green.” We shall keep
up to the times if we spend the last dollar our friends have
got.
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