This lyric being loudly Encored, the performer came forward, and, to my astonishment, began to recite a long series of doggerel verses upon Mr. Kipling's illness, setting forth how "His strong will made him famous, and his strong will pulled him through."
"America To-day, Observations and Reflections"
William Archer
I recited "Wynken, Blynken, and Nod," "Seein' Things at Night," and "Our Two Opinions," and was heartily Encored, but declined to do anything further.
"Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions"
Slason Thompson
She never got five hundred dollars per night for singing three songs at the Academy, with two or three encores grudgefully thrown in; but without pay she sometimes sang all night, and came out whenever Encored, though she had only two little ears for an audience.
"Around The Tea-Table"
T. De Witt Talmage