The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-12-17
JACK OF All. TRADES.
A HHaGIer-Of-Fact Romance.
ny CHARLES READE.
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lin.
Those were your words, sir
they did not fall to the grouad
you Sec"
My position in this orchestra
and the situation that arose out
of it, were meat and drink to my
two friends. With the gentry.
whose lives are a succession oil
amusemenIs, a joke soon wears
out, no doubt; but we poor fel-
lows can't let one go cheap.
How do we know how long it MAJ
be before Heaven sends us an
other2 A joke falling among us
is like a rat in q kennel of terriers.
At intricate passages the first
violin used to look at the tenor,
and then at me, and wink, and
they both swelled with innocent
enjoyment, till at last unknown
powers of gayety budded in Bates.
With quizzing his friend he
learned TO take jest, 30 much so
that, one night, Mr.. Yates being
fuhnier than usual if possible, a
single horse laugh suddeHly ex-
ploded among the fiddles This
was Bates gone off all in a mo-
ment after his trigger beng pull
cd SO many years to no purpose.
Mr.. Yates looked down with graf
flied surprise.
"HallOo! Brains got in the or
chestra; after that. anythingr'
But do yeu think it was fun to
me all this? I declare 1 suffered
the torture of the-you know
what. 1 had placed myself next
to an old fiddler who was deaf,
but he somehow smelt at times
that l was Sinking, and then he
used to cry, "Pull out, pull out;
you don't pull out"
"How can you say SOP" I used
to reply, and then saw away like
mad; when, SO connected are the
senses of sight and hearing appar-
emily, the old fellow used to smile
and be at peace. He saw me pull,
and so he heard me pull out.
Then sometimes friends of the
other performers would be in the
orchestra, and peep over me, and
cay civil things, and 1 wished
them farther, civilities and all.
But it is q fact that for two
months / gesticulated in that Or
ohestra without soul finding out
that 1 was not cutting the note to
the action.
At last we broke up, to my
great relief, but ! did not leave
the theater. Mr.. Wedger, Mr..
Yates's dresser, got me place be-
HAD the scenes at nine shillings
per week.
1 used to dress Mr.. Reeve, and
run for his brandies and waters,
which kept me on the trot, and do
odd jobs.
But was now to make the &C
auaintance that colored all my
life, or the cream OF it. Ny time
was come to move in a wider cir
Gle OF men and things, and really
to do what SO many fancy they
have doAe,-to see the world.
In the month of April, 1928, Mr..
Yates, theatrical manager, found
his nightly receipts fall below his
nightly expenses. In this situa-
ton, a manager falls upon one OF
TWO things,-a spectacle or a star.
Mr.. Yates preferred the latter, and
went over to Paris and engaged
Mademoiselle Dick.
Mademoeselle Dick was an ell
ephant of great size and unparal-
leled sagacity. She had been for
some time performing in Q play at
Franconis, and created = great
sensation in Paris.
OF her previous history little is
known. But she was first landed
from thu East in England, and
was shown about merely as an ell
ephant by her proprietor, an Ital-
ian called POlito. The French
man first found out her talent.
Her present owAer was a Mr..
HuSuet, and with him Mr.. Yates
treated. She joined the adelphi
company at Q salary Of f 40 a
week and her grub.
There was great expectation in
the theater tor some days The
play in which she was to perform,
ssThe Elephant OF the King OF
SIAM" was cast and rehearsed
several times; q wooden house
was built for her at the back of
the stage, and one fine afternoon,
sure enough, she arrived with all
her train, one or two of each ma
ton, viz, her owner, NJ. Huguet
(French); her principal keeper,
Tom Elliot Rnglish); her subor-
dinates,-Bernard. (French J, and
an Italian nicknamed Pippin.
She arrived at the stage door In
Maiden Lane, and soon after the
messenger was sent to Mr.. Yates's
house.
elephant 3 come, sir"
"Well, let them put her in the
place built for her, and I'll come
and see her."
"They can't do that, sir"
"Why notY'
"Lal bless you, sir, she might
get her foot into the theater, but
how is her body to come through
the stage door2 Why. she is al
most az big as the house"
Down comes Mr.. Yates, and
there was the elephant standing
all across Maiden Lane,-all trait.
ic interrupted except what could
pass under her helly,-and such q
erowd,-my eye!
Mr.. Yates put his hands in his
pockets and took a quiet look al
the state OF affairs.
you must make a hole in the
WALL" said he.
H. Pickaxes went to work, and
/ made a hole, or rather a frightfu
chasm, ia the theater, and when il
looked about two thirds her size
Elliot said, "Stop" He then gavf
her a sharp order, and the frs
specimen We saw of her clever
ness was her doubling herself to-
sether and creeping in through
the hole. bending her fore knees
and afterward rising and dragging
her hind legs horizontally, anC
she disappeared like an enormou.
mole burrowing into the theater
| Mademoiselle Dicks bills wer,