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Demeter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-04-11 08:39 AM
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"Eletelephony" by Laura Elizabeth Richards (1850-1943)



Once there was an elephant,
Who tried to use the telephant—
No! no! I mean an elephone
Who tried to use the telephone—
(Dear me! I am not certain quite
That even now I've got it right.)
Howe'er it was, he got his trunk
Entangled in the telephunk;
The more he tried to get it free,
The louder buzzed the telephee—
(I fear I'd better drop the song
Of elephop and telephong!)
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unc70 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-04-11 01:54 PM
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1. A favorite of mine. Recited it just last week
Others recite sonnets; I, "Eletelephony".

It was in the English textbook when I was in fourth grade in NC and was a favorite with the students and the teachers. My mother was one of those fourth-grade teachers.

I believe it also had a version of the radio script by F. Chase Taylor ("Col. Stoopnagle") about "Mrs. Phoebe B. Beebe and her new canoe canal ..." which will now be running through my head.
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Demeter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-04-11 02:31 PM
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2. and a Happy Birthday to Alexander Graham Bell!
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