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OCTOBER 1901 93 Well, we arrived at our destination and I found a tunnel about thirty feet wide and sixty feet long, arched with stone, and I can truly say I never was in a more magnifi- cent place for our purpose. Even our footsteps echoed and vibrated. There was a wagon road running through the tunnel and the remains of what had once been a board walk at one side. A stream of water ran through the driveway about a foot deep. I arranged my machine crosswise with the horn projecting over the water, and casually remarked it would be a rather damp experiment, but Brown was not discouraged one bit. He cheerfully removed his shoes, rolled up his trousers, jumped into the water and said ‘‘Let her go,” so I started the machine and Brown started his lecture. We made two records, but while we were finish- ing our third and last one, and Brown, in his most impres- sive style, was delivering his closing argument in favor of Nature, an old German milkman and his wife drove into the tunnel with tin cans and pails clattering a merry tune. Brown was furious and madly waved his hands for him to stop, but the German took no heed and probably thought we were a pair of lunatics, and I certainly could not blame him if he did, for it was a picture for a comic artist. As Brown finished his speech he said, choking with rage, “ G —D—him, why couldn’t he stop,” all of which the Phonograph recorded. While reproducing the records I took care to stop the machine before it came to these words, so he is unaware of their existence, and if he remains in ignorance until the night of the joint debate, then “ There will be a hot time in the old town,” and I will have to seek a new field for my operations.