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Bill Nye and Boomerang; or, The tale of a meek-eyed mule
Bill Nye and Boomerang or The tale of a meek-eyed mule Author:Bill Nye Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: There is a good deal of singing in this opera. Most everybody sings. I like good singing myself. Emma Abbott certainly warbles first-rate, and her love- makin... more »g takes me back to the halcyon days when I cared more for the forbidding future of my moustache, and less for meal-time than I do now. But Brignoli is no singer according to my Eesthetic taste. He sings like a man who hasn't taken out his second papers yet, and his stomach is too large. It gets in the way and "Arline" has to go around it and lean up on his flank when she wants to put her head on his breast. A SUNNY LITTLE INCIDENT. Thursday evening, in company with a friend, I rode up into the city on the Rock Island train and was agreeably surprised by seeing a Rocky Mountain man, a few seats ahead, sitting with a lady who seemed to be very much in love with him, and he was trying the best he knew to out- gush her. Now the gentleman's wife was at home in Wyoming in blissful ignorance of all this business while he was ostensibly buying his fall and winter stock of goods in Chicago. The most obtuse observer could see that the companion of this man was not his wife, for she was gentle toward him, and looked lovingly in his eyes. Every one in the car laid aside all other business and watched the performance. Then I whispered to my friend and said, " That is not the wife of that man. I can tell by the way they look into the depths of each other's eyes and ignore the other passengers. I'll bet ten dollars he has seven children and a wife at homeright now. Isn't it scandalous?" " You can't always tell that way," said my friend. " I've seen people who had been married twenty years who were iust as loving and spooney as that." He was biting a little, so I kept at him till he put up the ten dollars and agreed to l...« less