The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1880-04-11
GAS YOU LIKE IT,
Tho Result or Huuky Ktd's Playing
Charles the wrestler.

Charles the Wrcsticr.
II was an Amateur Dram. ASS,
tKind reader, although your
knowledge OF French is not FIRST class,
Don't call that Amaturo,)
1t was nm Amateur Dram. ASS.
Tho which did warfare wage
ON the dramatic works OF this
And every other age.
1t had walking gentleman,
A leading juvenile,
First lady In book muslin dressed
with gaivanic smile;
Thereto n singing chambcrmad,
Denignant heavy pa,
And, oh, heavier still was the heavy Will
Ain, with his fierce "Hal Hai''
There WASH an author from Shakespeare down.
or up-to Boucicault
These amateurs weren't competent
(s. wegg) to collar and throw.
And when the winter time came round
Seasons stagier phrase
The Am. Dram. Ass. assaulted one
OF the Bard Of Avon's plays.
Twas "As You Like It" that they chose,
For the leading iady's heart
Was set on playing RosalInd,
Or some other pnge's part.
And the President of the Am. Dram. ASS
A stalwart dry goods clerk
Was cast for orlando In which role
lie felt he'd made his mark.
" I mind me, ~ said tho President,
(Au thoughtful was his face.)
" when Orlando was taken by Thingumniy
That Charles was played by Mace.
Charles hath not many lines to speak,
Nay, not a single length
oh, II and we can n Mussulman
(That Is, q man Of strength
And bring him on the stage as Charles
But, alas, II can't be did
at can, ~ replied the Treasurer;
''Le,'s got the Hunky KID
This Iunky Kid OF whom they spoke
belonged to the p. II.
lie always had his hair cut short
And always had catarrh.
His voice was gruff, his language rough,
His forehead villainous low,
And meath his broken nose vast
Expanse Of Jaw did show.
lie was forty -eight about the chest
And his forearm at the mid
Die measured twenty-one and half
Such was the Hunky Kid
The Am. Dram. ASS. they have engaged
Thispct of the p. II.
As Charles the Wrestler he's to be
A bright particular star.
And when they put the programme out
Announce him thus they did:
Orlando. ....... Mr.. Romeo Jones
Charles. ......... Mr.. T. II. Kid.
The night has come. The house ia packed
From pit to gallery,
AS those who through the curtain peep
Quake lnwarily to see.
A squeak is In the orchestra,
The leader draws across
The intestlnes of the agile cat
The tail of the noble boss.
All is at sea behind the scenes
Why do they fear and funks
Alas, alas, tho Hunky Kid
Is lamentably drunk
He's In that most unlovely stage
OF Naturalization.
When mon resent the hint they're tight
As a personal imputation.
" Ring up Ring up !" Orlando cried,
''Or We must cut the scene;
For Charles the Wrestler is imbaed
With poisonous benzine,
And every moment gets more drunk
Than he before has been.''
The wrestling scene has come aud Charles
Is much Disguised IN drink:
The stage to him is an Inclined plane,
The footlights make him blink,
But he strives to act well his part
Where all the honor lies,
Though Shakespeare would not in his lines
His language recognize.
Instead of Come. where is this young?"
This man of bone and Drawn,
He squared himself and bellows. 'Time!
Fetch your Orlandos on ~
Now, Hercules be thy speed, young man,
Fair Rosalind, said she,
As the two wrestlers In the ring
They grappled furiously;
But Charles the Wrestler had no sense
or dramatic prcprlety.
lie seized on Mr.. Romeo Jones
In Greco Roman style;
He got what they call grapevine lock
On that leading juvenile.
He flung him into tho orchestra,
And the man with the ophcleids,
On whom he fell, he Just sad-well,
No matter what-and died.
When once tho tiger has tasted blood
And found that 1t is sweet
He has habit Of killing more
Than he can possibly eat
And thus 1t was with the Hunky Kid
In his homicidal blindness,
He lifted his hand against ROsalind
Not IN the way OF kindness.
He chased poor Celia of at l.,
At X. u. E. lie Beau,
And he put such head upon Duke Fred,
In fifteen seconds or so.
That never one of tho cOurtly train
Might his naughty master know.
And that's precisely what came to pass
Because the luckless carls
Belonging to the Am. Dram. Ass.
Cast the Hunky Kid for Charles.
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