<h3><SPAN name="AN_APPRECIATIVE_AUDIENCE" id="AN_APPRECIATIVE_AUDIENCE"></SPAN>AN APPRECIATIVE AUDIENCE</h3>
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<p>My son, I wish that it were half<br/>
As easy to extract a laugh<br/>
From grown-ups as from thee.<br/>
Then I'd go on the stage, my boy,<br/>
While Richard Carle and Eddie Foy<br/>
Burned up with jealousy.<br/>
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I wouldn't have to rack my brain<br/>
Or lie awake all night in vain<br/>
Pursuit of brand new jokes;<br/>
Nor fear my lines were heard with groans<br/>
Of pain and sympathetic moans<br/>
From sympathetic folks.<br/>
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I'd merely have to make a face,<br/>
Just twist a feature out of place,<br/>
And be the soul of wit;<br/>
Or bark, and then pretend to bite,<br/>
And, from the screams of wild delight,<br/>
Be sure I'd made a hit.<br/></p>
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