NAPOMO: Double Dose of Marriot Edgar

Double post, since I missed yesterday, and a change of pace. These comic monologues always remind me of my gradfather, who used to recite them at family parties (along with the one about Noah and the carpenter who refuses to charge less than three ha'pence a foot for birds-eye maple - 'the only dry land were at Blackpool, and that were at top of the tower'), and quite a few phases from these have become family catch-phrases....

Albert and the Lion
( And mother said, well, I am vexed )

Albert's Return

( And Father said, Aye, it would be )