The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-12-24
JACK OF Al TRADEs.
a rIatler-oc-Fact Eso.nance.
BY CHARLES READE.
[coNTINUED.1

4 OSlOTSS WnSn All IN q moment Sn
laid hold of him with her trunl
and gave HIM a squeeze. He la,
in bed six weeks with it, ant
there was nobody to deliver he
eulogy at night. Elliot was a
the other end of the stage whel
the accident happened. He heart
Mr.. Yates cry out, and ran in, anC
the elephant let Mr.. Yates go thu
| moment she saw him.
We questioned Elliot. W.
might as well have questioned The
monument. Then 1 inquired O
NJ. Huguet what this meant
That gentleman explained to mC
that Dick had miscalculated heI
strength; that she wanted to ca
ress SO kind a manager, who wa:
always feeding and counting her
and had embraced him too warm
ly.
The play went on and elephants
reputation increased. But hel
popularity was destined to receive
shock as far as we little ones be
hind the curtain were concerned
One day while Pippin was
spreading her straw, she knocked
him down with her trunk, and
pressing her tooth against him
bored two frightful holes in his
skull before Elliot could interfere
Pippen was carried to st. George's
Hospital and we began to look in
one another's faces.
Pippin's situation was in the
market.
One or two declined it. II
came down to me. 1 reflected
and accepted it: another nine
shillings: total, twenty seven
shillings.
That night two supers turned
tail. An actress also, whose
name have forgotten, refused to
go on with her. 81 was not en-
gagged to play with a BRUTE, said
the lady, " and 1 won't" Others
went on as usual, but were not so
sweet on it as before. The right
full heir lost all relish for his
part, and, above all, when Ais turn
came to be preserved from harm
by her, used to hear him CRYING
out of the box to Elliot, ''are you
there? are you sure you are there?''
and, when she tore open his box,
Garrick never acted better than
this one used to now, for you see
his cue was to exhibit fear and
exhaustion, and he did both to
the life, because for the last five
minutes he had been thinking, 90
dear! o dearl suppose she should
do the foot business on my box
instead of the proboscis business"
These, however were vain fears.
She made no mistake before the
public.
Nothing lasts forever in this
world, and the time came that she
ceased to I'LL the house. Then
Mr.. Yates re engaged her for the
provinces, and, having agreed
with the country managers, sent
her down to Bath and Bristol
first. He had good opion of me,
and asked me to go with her and
watch his interests. 1 should not
certainly have applied for the
place, but it was not easy to say
no to Mr.. Yates, and felt l owed
him some reparation for the wrong
[ had done that great artist in &C
companying his voice with my
gestures.
In short, We started, Dick, Eli
OF, Bernard, 1, and Pippin, on foot
{ he was just out of St.George's). |
Messrs. Huguet and Yates rolled |
in their carriage to meet US at the |
principal towns where we played. |
AS we could not afford to make |
her common, our walking was all |
and introduced me to |
4 rough life.
The average of night weather is |
wetter and windier than day, and |
many vile night we tramped |
through when wise men were in |
bed; and we never knew for GER
ain where we should pass the |
hight, for it depended on Dick.
She was so enormous that half the |
ms could not find us a place big
enough for her. Our first evening
stroll was to Bath and Bristol;
hence we crossed to Dublin
hence we returned to Plymouth.
We walked from Plymouth to
Liverpool, playing with good sue
cess at all these places. At Liver
pool she laid hold of Bernard and |
would have settled his hash, but |
Elliot came between them.
The same afternoon in walks a |
young gentleman dressed in the
height of Partisan fashion,-olos-I
~ hat, satin tie, trousers puckered |
1t the haunches,-sprucer than
my poor Englishman will be while |
,he world lasts, and who was it |
put Mons. Bernard come to take
cave? We endeavored to dis
'uade him. He smiled and sh0ok
lis head, treated us, flattered r,s.
Ind showed US his preparations
or France.
All that day and the next he
about US dressed like
gentleman, with his hands in his
pockets, and an ostentatious NEG
ect- of his late affecionate Charge
Before he left he invited me to
rink something at his expense,
Ind was good enough to say L
vas most what he regretted leav-
ing.
"Then why go?" said 1.
81 will tell you, mon pauvre gar
,on," said Mons. Bernard 1--WE
bid hands have all got our orders
20 say she is a duck. All! you
nave found that out of yourself. |
Well, now. as l am done with her,
will tell you a part of her char
lcter, tor l know her well. Once |
,he Injuries you she can never for
give you. So long as she never
hurts you there is a fair chance
she never will. 1 have been about
ler for years, and she never mo-
ested me till yesterday. But, i'll
she once attacks a man, that
mans death warrant is signed.
[ can't altogether account for il,
but trust my experience, it is so.
would have stayed with you all