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"Come Flammable" said Gibble Gabble "& lets enjoy ourselves. Bring the Puppets." "Hay Hay", said he, "you sho, why ya ya, how can you be so foolish. Ha! Ha! Ha! she calls the experiments puppets." Then he went up stairs & loaded the maid with glasses, & brass tubes, & magic pictures. "Here, ladies & gentlemen" said he, "I'll shew you a louse climbing or a flea or a butterfly or a cock chafer, the blade bone of a tittle back, no no here's a bottle of wind that I took up in the bog house. O dear, O dear, the water's got into the sliders. "Look here Gibble Gabble, lend me your handkerchief, Tilly Lally." Tilly Lally took out his handkerchief which smeared the glass worse than ever. Then he screwd it on, then he took the sliders & then he set up the glasses for the ladies to view the pictures. Thus he was employd & quite out of breath. While Tilly Lally & Scopprell were pumping at the air pump, Smack went the glass. "Hang" said Tilly Lally. Inflammable Gass turned short round & threw down the table & glasses & pictures, & broke the bottles of wind & let out the Pestilence. He saw the Pestilence fly out of the bottle & cried out while he ran out of the room. "Go, come out, come out! We are putrified, we are corrupted. Our lungs are destroyd with the Flogiston. This will spread a plague all thro' the Island. He was down stairs the very first. On the back of him came all the others in a heap. So they needed not bidding to go. |
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