Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1875-03-27

Painful Result of Having a
Rather Who will not APP.
prcciate Shakespeare.

lew Gays ago young Gurley, whose
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 guarantee
her fifty cents per night.
Young Gurley suddenly bloomed out
as professional, and when his mother
asked him to bring 10 some wood he re-
piled: I
Though am penniless thou cans
not degrade me !"
You trot out after that wood or I'll
have your father trounce you ~ she ex,
claimed.
1.-THE tyrant who lays his hand upon
me shall die u replied the boy, but he
got the wood.
lie went out on the step when a man
came alocg and asked him where Lafay-
cite street was,
Doomed for certain time to roam
the earth - replied Gurey in hoarse
voice, and holding his right arm out
straight
II say--you Where is Lafayette
street y called the man.
"Ahl Could the dead but speak
all y continued Gurley.
The man drove him into the house,
and his mother sent him to the grocery
after potatoes.
II do, most noble duchess" he said,
as he took up the basket. shut my good
sword shall one day avenge these in
suits!
He knew that the grocer favored
theatricals, and when he got there he
said
cart thou provided with store of
that vegetable known MS the later, most
excellent duke n
"What in the thunder do you WANT
growled the grocer, as he cleaned the
cheese knife on piece OF paper.
"Thy plebian mind is dull of COM
prehensionW answered Gurley.
"Don't try to get off any of your nom
sense on me, or III crack your empty
pate 10 minutel" roared the grocer,
and "Hamlet" had to come down from
his high horse aud ask for peck Of po-
tatoes
"What made you so long ?" asked bis
mother as he returned.
"Thy grave shall be dug in the cypress
glade r he haughtily answered.
When his father came home at noon
Mrs. Gurely told him that she believed
the boy was going crazy; and related
what had occurred.
81 see what ails him" unused the faith
er; "this explains why he hangs around
Joanson'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 he would have some butter gravy, lie
answered:
"The appetite of a warrior cannot be
satisfied with such nonsense"
When the meal was over the father
went out to his favorite shade tree, cut a
sprout, and the boy was asked to step
out into the woodshed and see if the pen
stock was frozen up. He found the old
man there, and he said
"Why, most noble lord, | had sup
posed thee far away"
"I'm not SO far away but what I'm go
ing to make you skip" growled the
father. I'm 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 rest and inquired:
"There, your hishness, dost want any
more ~
"Ohl no, dad not {. darned bit !"
walled the young manager" and while
the fatherstarted for down town he went
in and sorrowfully informed the hired
girl that he must cancel her engagement
until the fall season.