"After that we fairly spun through 'The Cowpuncher's Stunt'--a train
robbery--'The Missing Million,' and a man tumbling out of the top
storey of Flat-Iron Building, New York. He went down, storey after
storey, to the motto of 'Keep on Moving,' and just before he hit the
ground he began to tumble up again. On his way up he smacked all the
faces looking out at the windows--I often wonder, Otty, how they get
people to do these things: but I suppose the risk's taken into
account in the pay.
"Farrell took a great fancy to 'Keep on Moving.' Up to this we had
been snug as fleas in a blanket; but now he started to make such a
noise, encoring, that I had to step down to the gallery and lean over
it and request Petunia to take the cover off the piano and play
something, if she could, to deaden the outcries. 'Something domestic
on the loud pedal,' I suggested. 'Create an impression that we're
holding a rehearsal after hours.'
"She came forward, looked up, and said that I reminded her of Romeo
and Juliet upside down.
"'Of course!' I explained. 'We're in Pekin.
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