The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-11-03

comes awake agin an finds him dead,
she stabs herself"
After this blast Of words ratified off by
'Melia without a pause for breath. poor
Simon looked aghast. Perhaps he was
endeavoring to grasp the meaning of
the condensed recital. My friend had
been skecthing the play for tho old la
dy in hasty way, and we were won
derfully amused to hear her enlighten
her partner rs to what was coming.
"Waal," said Simon, refectively,
"thet's queer looking sort of dress
to go sourtin' in. It's purity snug.
reckon he didn't hey to climb the pas
tur' fence as l used to when l went
cour-" A severe, but fattered look
from his companion caused him to
change his sentence into "when I went
calm on Farmer Brown"
There was twinkle in his eye, as he
smoothed his chin, and the old lady
famed he rself vigorously and looked
hard at the stage. When Mercutio
was stabbed and was TESTING and laugh
ing with his last breath, Simon said =
"Now, 'Melia, look a here, Teller
wouldn't feel much like joking at sech
time. l don't more'n half like that.
He ought to plump right off without
talkin'."
But when Romeo avenged the wan
ton murder of his friend by stabbing in
turn the slayer, Tybalt, and when the
sword suddenly slipped out of sight up
to the socket, and the victim fell dead,
and q number of ladies partly arose
from their seats, and several screamed,
no wonder the good Amelia grasped
Simon's knees III suppressed pain as
she gazed on the scene.
ooh, Simon" said she, "did he really
kill him ?"
Simon wore a broad grin on his face,
and slowly drawled out =
"Why, 'Melia, hain't seen you SO
pestered and worked up for nigh on
twenty years. Thet chap did get killed
rather sudden like" he added in a phi
losophic tone. 81 thought the other
did too much talkin'. 1t wasn't so
blamed sudden as this. though. ! like
a lcetle talkin'."
Juliet quite stole the heart of the old
man in the very first part of the drama
when the dance Of the minuet was in
troduced.
81 don't believe / could drop such d
pert curtsey as tibet now, nor move
round so spry," remarked Amelia.
mo, l jes' bet you couldn't !" blunt
ly retorted Simon. You'd git yer feet
mixed up in them long skirts and tum
bic down, thet's what you'd do"
"EfI hedn't had the rheumatics so
much from doin' your housework, and
got all stiffened up before my time, I'd
be spry enough" hotly retortcd the in
suited lady, with red cheeks.
"Waal, 'Melia, let's not argy," placid
ly remarked Simon.
As the evening advanced in lateness,
the curtain rose and fell, and our folks
were getting tired.
II think there's too much love smack
in in it. Folks don't do their courtin'
tibet way nowadays, an / never reflect
knowin' nobody tibet did," sleepily
yawned Simon.
$50 much the worse for 'em," tartly
answered the peppery Amelia, for she
still smarted under the cruel dig given
her by her lord.
"Umph," said the provokingly calm
Simon, with chuckle, II reckon now
you'd jes' be the one what would like to
have chap spookin' round under yer
winder after candle-light, n PAWN over
yer bower garden and blowin' kisses up
at yer winder."
Amelia vouchsafed no reply for this
bit of pleasantly. The last act had
con, 6. The fatal poison was beginning
to work throughout the veins of the
unhappy Romeo just Us Juliet awoke
from her long sleep, and SO real seemed
his agony at the approach OF death that
he knew to be tirrevocable, and that
4 gradually but surely seemed tearing his
Juliet from his arms, that good Amelia
murmured half aloud;
The whites Of egg is good anti
dote."
But all was over. The curtain fell,
and the people surged out. Amelia
and Simon sat looking at the curtain
even after it had fallen, and then, rec
t;ons IA move ont
uvu.sI > :. :. :. Z, =, - 9; q,
h;nr ~ ~. no .d u a,,nhter M S; ho.h
! on 'em leastways. Now, why didn't
tnet gal TAKE . SHINE 70 some other
CHAP, ana glt married, ana De happy-
gall, - so romantic.
D AS they moved OIL, he was heard &c
say, with q drawl:.
II reckon you hain't too proud te
hey me take chew, now, be you! I've
: felt sort o lonesome all the evenin, II
I lther."