The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-03-11
A youthful Thespian.
PainfuI Result OF Having a Father who
VIII Not Appreciate Shakespeare.
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Painful Result OF Having a Father who
VIII Not Appreciate Shakespeare.
From the Detroit Free Press.
A few daya ago young GurieyS whose
father lives on CIognan street, organ
lied a theatrical company and pur-
chased dime-novei of Hamlet. The
company consisted of three boys and q
hostler. and Mr.. Gurley's hired girl
was to be the "Ghost if the troupe
could guarantee her fifty cents per
night.
Young GurIey suddenly bloomed ont
as a profe ssional, and when his mother
asked him 10 bring her some wood he
Though I am penniless thou oanst
lyon trot out after that wood. or I'll
have your father trounce you'll ahe
exclaimed.
"The tyrant who lays his hand upon
me shall die replied the boy, but he
got the wood.
He was out on the step when a man
came along aud asked him whore Laiay-
cite street was.
the earth / " replied Gurley in a hoarse
voice, and. holding his right arm out
straight.
i HuY-Nuu NlEAp - 1NA@
street ?" called the man.
aAhl Gould the dead but speak
ali " continued QuTley.
The man drove him into the house,
end his mother sent him TO the grocery
~ 20, most noble duchess" he said,
as he took up the basket, but my
good sword shall some day avenge
these insults
He knew that the grocer favored the
atricsls, and when he got there he
said
Art thou provided with n store Of
that vegetable known as the 'tater, most
excellent Dake2"
What in thunder do you want 2"
growled the grocer, as he cleaned the
sheese-knife on a piece of paper.
!Thy plebeien mind is dull Of COM
prehension - answered Guriey.
"Dont try to get OF any of your
nonsense on me or I'll crack your empty
pate IN q minute l. roared the grocer,
and "Hamlet" had to come down from
his high horse and ask for peck OF
potatoes.
q WHAT made you go long p asked his
mother, as he returned.
ssThv grave shail ba dug in the cy-
press qlaie I" he haughlily answered.
When his father came home AZ noon
Mrs. Gurley told him that she believed
the boy was going crazy, and related
what had occurred.
ssI see what ails him. unused the
father "this explains Why ne nangs
around Johnson's barn 50 much.
At the dinner-table young Curly
snoEa Of his father as the "iiiustrous
e9nnt " and when his mcshef asked him
IL he would have some butter gravy ne
answered:
ssI,ne annette of warrior esnnOt be
satisfied With such norfens6.
When the meal via over the father
went out to his fayorite shade tree, cut
a spront, and the boy was asked &c step
ont into the woodthed aud see u the
Penstock was frozen up. He ionnd the
old man there, and be faid
g Why, most noble lard, had snp-
posed thee far away
TIN not 50 FAR nWay but Ehst ! N
going to make you skip groSied the
father. 'sI'Il teach you 70 fool around
with ten-csnt tragedies Come up
here.
For about ten minutes the woodshed
was full Of dancing feet, dying arms
ard moving bodies. aud then tae oio
man took a rest and inquired
There. your highness. lest want
anY more ?"
hOh nc, dad-not 6 darned bit
walled fhe young "msnager' ano
while the father started for doEn Town
he Vent in and Eorrowfnily informed
the hired girl that he must cancel her
engag6nent until the fan season,