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<h2> OBITUARY POETRY </h2>
<p>ADDRESS AT THE ACTORS’ FUND FAIR, PHILADELPHIA, in 1895<br/></p>
<p>LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,—The—er this—er—welcome
occasion gives me an—er—opportunity to make an—er—explanation
that I have long desired to deliver myself of. I rise to the highest
honors before a Philadelphia audience. In the course of my checkered
career I have, on divers occasions, been charged—er—maliciously
with a more or less serious offence. It is in reply to one of the more—er—important
of these that I wish to speak. More than once I have been accused of
writing obituary poetry in the Philadelphia Ledger.</p>
<p>I wish right here to deny that dreadful assertion. I will admit that once,
when a compositor in the Ledger establishment, I did set up some of that
poetry, but for a worse offence than that no indictment can be found
against me. I did not write that poetry—at least, not all of it.</p>
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