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Fred. Coyne, a popular London comic singer and author, will shortly make a tour in the United States. He will best be remembered as the author of "Pull Down the Blinds," "Whoa, Emma," and other songs that have gained popularity...
...more he said 'Whoa,' I cried...
...know what your beau's pretty horse's name is," said a little fellow to his sister, Saturday morning. "It's 'Damye.'" "Hush, Eddie, that's a naughty word." "Well, I don't care; that's his name, 'cos last night I heard him say, outside the fence, 'Whoa, Damye...
...came a wrathy Senior, and informed me that he should practise on his cornet as much as he pleased, and that if I did n't like it I could move. And this was not the worst; a Freshy overhead was lucky enough to have a piano, and banged 'Whoa! Emma,' and other Freshmanic ditties on it all day long, accompanying a chorus of some twenty classmates. I could n't study at all, with so much noise to distract my thoughts from Italian Grammar and Natural History; result, an average of forty and one fifteenth per cent for Sophomore...
THERE is very little that is really original in literature. That apparently most original song, "Whoa, Emma," is, after all, only an expansion of Dr. Holmes's idea...