The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1875-02-27
A Youthful Thespian.
PAINFUL RESULT OF HAVING A FAITH
THEIR WHO WILL NOT APPRECIATE
SHAK EsPEARE,


Their WHO WILL NOT APPRECIATE
SHAKESPEARE.
A few days ago you Gurley, whose
father lives on Oroghan street, oragniz-
ed a theatrical company and purchased
the dime novel play Of Hamlet. "The
company consisted of three boys and a
hostler, and Mr.. Gurley hired girl was
to be the Ghost If the troupe could guar
aDtee her fifty cents per night.
Young Gurley suddenly bloomed out
as professional, and when his mother
asked him to bring in some wood he re-
piled:
Though 1 am penniless thou canst
not degrade me!'
"You trot out after that wood or I'll
have your father trounce your she ex-
claimed.
"The tyrant who lays his hand upon
me shall die" replied the boy, but he
got the wood.
He was out out on the step when a
man came along and asked him where
Lafayette street was.
"Doomed for certain time to roam
the earthl" replied Gurley in hoarse
voice, and holding his right arm out
straight.
81 say-youl Where is Lafayette
street," called the man.
"Ah! Could the dead but speak-ahp'
continued Gurley.
The man drove him into the house,
and his mother sent him to the grocery
after potatoes.
''I 60, most noble Duchess" he said
as he took up the basket, "but my good
sword shall one day avenge these in
sults!'
He knew the grocer favored theatri-
calls, and when he got there he said:
cart thou provided with a store of
that vegetable known as the 'tater, most
excellent duke?"
"What in thunder do you wantl"
growled the grocer as he cleaned the
cheese knife on piece of paper.
"Thy plebeian mind is dull of COM
prehensionl" answered Gurley.
"Don't try to get of any of your nom
sense on me, or I'll crack your empty
pate in minute % roared the grocer,
and Hamlet had to come down from
his high horse and ask for a peck of
potatoes.
"What made you so long?" asked
his mother as he returned.
"Thy grave shall be dug in the
cypress glade ?" he haughtily answered.
When his father came home at noon
Mrs. Gurley told him that she believed
the boy was going crazy, and related
what had occurred.
"I see what ails him." mused the
father 'this explains why he hangs
| around Johnson's barn so much"
At the dinner table young Gurley
spoke of his father as the ''illustrious
count" and when his mother asked him
if lie would have some butter gravy he
answered:
"The appetite of warrior cannot be
satisfied with such nonsense"
When the meal was over the father
went out to his favorite shade tree, cut
sprout, and the boy was asked to step
out into the wooGshed and see If tho
penstock was frozen up. He found the
old man there, and he said {:
"Why, most noble lord, had sup
posed tree far away %
"Pm not so far away but what I'm
going to make you skip - growled the
father. "I'll teach you to fool around
with ten cent Tragedies! Come up
here!"
For about FIVE minutes the woodshed
was full of dancing feet, flying arms
and moving bodies, and then the old
man took a rest and inquired
"There, your highneSs, dost want
any more ?"
"Ohl no, dad mot darned bitl'
vailed the young manager" and
while the father started for down town
lie went in and sorrowfully informed
the hired girl that he must cancel her
engagement until the fail season.