Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1875-03-22
A YOUTHFUL THEsPIAN.

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father lives in Detroit. organized the
atrical company and purchased the dime
novel play of Hamlet" The company
consisted of three boys and a hOstler.
and Mr.. Gurley's hired girl was to be
-the "Ghost" if the troupe could guaran-
tee her fifty cents per night.
Young Gurlev suddenly bloomed out
as professional. and when his mother
asked him to bring in some wood he re-
piled:
Though | am penniless thou canst
not degrade me !"
..You trot out after that wood or III
have your father trounce yOul' she ex-
claimed.
1.-The tyrant who lays his hands upon
me shall die 20 replied the boy, but he
got the wood
He was out on the step when man
came along and asked him where Lafay-
ette street was.
Doomed for certain time to roam
the earth % replied Gurley, in hoarse
voice, and holding his right arm out
straight.
Il say-you Where is Lafayette
street ?' called the man.
.Ah Could the dead but speak
ah ~ continued Gurley.
! The man drove him into the house.
and his mother sent him to the grocery
after potatoes.
II 90, most noble Duchess he said
taking up the basket, "but my good
sword shall some day avenge these in-
suits J"
He knew that the grocer favored the
atricals, and when he got there he said :
"Art thou provided with store of
that vegetable known as the tater, most
excellent duke %
"What in thunder do you want ?'
growled the grocer, as he cleaned the
cheese knife on piece of paper.
''Thy plebeiau mind is dull of COM
prehension !" answered Gurley.
Don't try to get off any of your nom
sense on me, or I'll crack your empty
pate in a minute '' roared the grocer,
and Hamlet" had to come down from
his high horse and ask for peck of po-
tatoes
"What made you SO long?" asked his
I mother as he returned.
Thy grave shall be dug in the cy'
press glade p he haughtily answered.
When his father came home at moor
Mrs. Gurley told him that she believed
the boy was going crazy, and related
what had occurred.
Il see what ails him." mused the fa-
: ther; this explains why he hangs
around Johnson's barn so much"
At the dinner table young Gurley
spoke of his father as the "illustriou
! count" and when his mother asked hin
if he would have some butter gravy, h
answered /:
! "The appetite of warrior cannot b
! satisfied with such nonsense"
!. When the meal was over the fathe
! went out to his favorite shade tree, Gu
sprout, and the boy was asked to ste
out into the woodshed and see if tn
. penstock was frozen up. He found tn
;, old man there, and he said:
4 "Why, most noble lord, | had sup
. posed thee far away"
4 ''I'm not so far away but what II
going to make you skip! !" growled th
. father. '1'll teach you to fool arOun
r with ten cent tragedies Come up here .
= For about five minutes the woodshe
4 was full of dancing feet, flying arms an
- moving bodies. and then the old ma
took rest and inquired
= There, your highness, dost want an
't more 2"
"Oh no, dad-not a darned bit
is walled the young manager" !" aud Will
> the father started for down town
went in and sorrOwfully informed th
ie hired girl that he must cancel her Ell
90 gagement until the fall season.