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Walter the Dentist
Walter
also: Гвалтер, Гвалтера
An invented comic dentist who narrates a mock advertisement in broken, misspelled Russian, warning readers not to confuse him with a rival dentist -- who is also, absurdly, named Walter.
Reading notes
- Comic Advertisements and Notices §2 Walter
An invented comic dentist, rendered narrating in broken, misspelled Russian typical of a semi-literate or foreign tradesman's advertising copy -- the sketch's real joke is the mangled orthography, not the plot.