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Show When the Statue Nodded. Before he attained to the front rank In his profession, Fred Kitchen, the famous fa-mous comedian, used to tour Europe in an acrobatic turn with a partner named Royal. One week they were at the Eldorado Eldo-rado theater, Naples, and after the performance they went for a stroll along the famous embankment, known as the Waterfront "1'rotty soon," said Fred, in telling tell-ing the story, "we reached a statue, find h: it nodded gravely toward us." " 'IMd you see that statue nod?' said my partner. " 'I certainly did.' said I. " 'Well.' said he, Tin going back to the hotel and to bed before I get run in. It's that confounded Capri ivine.' "So. ashamed of ourselves, back we went, and sneaked tip to bed. "P.ut at breakfast time next morning morn-ing both of us seemed to be amazingly amazing-ly fresh considering pur dissipation of the night before, and we could not understand un-derstand why we had such good appetites ap-petites until the waiter said: o 'Hid the gentlemen feel last night's slight earthquake?'" |