People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1893 — What He Was Waiting For. [ARTICLE]

What He Was Waiting For.

One of the best of “applause” stories is related of a singer who was exceedingly self-conscious—not to say intolerably conceited—who, at a concert at which she was to vocalize, handed to the German gentleman who was accompanying her at the pianoforte a copy of her song marked in several places: “Wait for the applause.” At the end of one verse there came a dead silence among the audience. The accompanist laid not a linger on key, but blinked through his spectacles at the lady. “What are you waiting for? ’ she asked in an exasperated undertone. “I am waitin’ for de abblause,” replied the pianist, “and he nod gom yet!”