Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1875-03-19
A Youthful Thespian.
Painful Results of Having a Father Who
VIII not Appreciate Shakespeare.


win not Appreciate Shakespeare.
A few days ago young Gurley, whose
father lives on Croghan street, organized
theatrical company and purchased the
dime novel play of Hamlet. The COM
pany consisted of three boys and a host
Ter, and Mr.. Gurley's hired girl was to
be the Ghost if the troupe could guar
antee 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 | am penniless, thou canst
not degrade me
4" You trot out after that wood, or I'll
have your father trounce you !" she
exclaimed.
The tyrant who lays his hand upon
me shall diel 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 a certain time to roam
the earth replied Gurley in hoarse
voice, and holding his right arm out
straight.
al 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.
/ 60, most noble Duchess" he said
as he took up the basket, but my good
sword shall some day avenge these in
suits ~
He knew that the grocer favored the
atricals, and when he got there he said
Art thou provided with a store O.
that vegetable known as 'taters, most ex
cellent duke ?"
What in thunder do you want p
growled the grocer, as he cleaned tn,
cheese knife on piece of paper.
Thy plebian mind is dull of com
prehension answered Gurley.
Don't try to get off any of you.
nonsense on me, or I'll crack your empt,
pate in minute :" roared the grocer
and " Hamlet had to come down from
his high horse and ask for peck of pc
tatoes.
What made you SO long2" aske'
his mother as he returned.
"Thy grave shall be dug in the cy
press glade !" he haughtily answered.
When his father came home at nool
Mrs. Gurley told him that she believe,
the boy was going crazy, and relate,
what had occurred.
81 see what ails him." mused th
father +" this explains why he hang
around Johnson's barn so much"
At the dinner table young Gurle
spoke of his father as the illustriou
count" and when his mother asked hir
if he would have some butter gravy,
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
a sprout, and the boy was asked to ste
out into the woodshed and see if the pei
stock was frozen up. He found the oil
man there, and he said:
Why, most noble lord, / had SUI
posed thee far away "
"Tm not so far away but what II
going to make you skip " growled th
father. "Pll teach yon to fool roun
with ten cent tragedies Comeup here
For about five minutes the woodshe
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
more 2"
"Oh, no, dad-not a darned bit |
walled the young manager" and viii
the father started for down town he wei
in and sorrowfully informed the hire
girl that he must cancel her engagemei
until the fall season. Detroit Free Pres