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Show don't know nothin' If yon do not know Wahoo. Halibut Hole and Mangahick, Palmyra and Peru, Devil's Lake and Ballygobake are conquered by Wahoo. Know you don't know nothin' if you don't know Wahoo. That great and glorlona eity, a bushel bush-el on a peak, stands where the waters of Wahoo Into Cottonwood's do leak; and there Isn't a nobler city upon a nobler creek. 'TIs there that Colonel Bryan goes with howl and hullabaloo, for they greatly count on the Paramount, Para-mount, In paramount Wahoo. As Imperialism Im-perialism among Issues, mid cities Is Wahoo. They count not well who leave it out, majestic old Wahoo; of thee bereft what is there left, O paramount para-mount Wahoo? On the waters that wash those happy slopes, by gosh, the Octopus never octopes. In that majestic majes-tic town the Money Devil is devilled brown. The plutocrats Wahoo will "do" 'em. Her people have chills and feed upon pills when you say the word "Empire" to 'em. So huzza and hurrah and huroo for unparalleled Wahoo, the proud and fearless, paramount, peerless broth of a town, Wahoo. And remember you don't know nothin' if you do not know Wahoo. DON'T YOU KNOW WAHOO? A Confession of Dense Ignorance, and a Rhymed Reply Thereto. That respected and venerable Journal, Jour-nal, the Boston Transcript having acknowledged, ac-knowledged, after the publication of Bryan's great speech at Wahoo, that it had "never heard of AYahoo before," the New York Sun comments thereon as follows: Weep for very shame, Boston; tear off your stockings blue; tread tears for years and years, for you don't know Wahoo. Talk not of Persepolis, Ilium, Kalamazoo. Every name of ancient fame pales beside Wahoo. Know you |