The Ripley advertiser. [volume] (Ripley, Miss.) 1843-1897, 1883-09-01
The Bad Boy Rehearsing.a
Peck's Sun.

the bad BOY. Owe are going to
have amateur theatricals TO raise
money to have the church carpeted,
and ! am going to boss the job.
.i''Pa and ma, aud me and the min
istsr and three choir singers, and
my chum and the minister's wife
and two deacons and an old maid
ara rehearsing, but we have not de-.
cided what TO play yet. They all
want to play different play, andl
am fixing it so tAeY all can be salts.
fed. The minister wants to play
Hamlet, pa wants to play Rip Van
Wlnkle, ma wante 10 play Mary
Anderson, the old maid wants to
play boarding schnol play, the
choir sipger3 wants to play An ope
ra the minister's wife wants TO
play Lady Macbeth, aud any chum
and NE wants to play double song
and dance, and / anl going to give
them all a shpw. We had a rehsars-
al last night, and | am the oa!g
.One able 10 be around to-day. You
see, they have all boen studying
different parts, and they all wanted
to talk at once. We let the minis
ter sail in first. Il had on a pair
OF his wife'S black sto3linS3, a man-
tie made Of buggy lap blanket,
and ho wore mAson's cheese kulte.
such as these fellows wear when
they get an invitation to funeral
Or an excursion. wish. you never
saw Hamlet murdered the way he
did it. His interpretation Of the
character was that Hamlet was a
dude that talked through his nose,
and while he was repeating Ham
let's solloqnY pa who had come in
with an old hunting suit on az II p
Van WmkIe, went to sleep, and he
didn't wake up till Lady Macbeth
came in, in the sleep walking, scene.
She coullu'G fEd knife, so took
a slice of watermelon and sharpen
I'D 1t for her, and she made mis-
take in the one she was 10 stab,
and she stabbed Hamlet in the
back with slice of the water mel
on, AMI tile core of the melon fell
on p,'s face, as he lay asleep as
Rip, and when Lady Macbeth said,
'Oa', dsmned spoi,' pa woke up
and felt the goh OF watermelon on
| hts face and he thought he had
been murdered, and ma came III on
! a hop, skip and jump, as ParlhcnIs,
aud threw har arms ArounI daa.
con who was going to play the
grave digger and began 10 call him
pet names, and pa was mad, and
the choir singers they began to sing,
In the NOrlh sea lived whale,
and then they quit acting. You'd
dide 10 see Hamlet. The piece of
watermelon went down his neck
and Lady Macbeth went off and
left 1T in the wound under hia col
Tar, and ma had to pull it opt, and
Hamlet said the seeds and the juice
wers running down inside OF his
shirt, ANA he said ho wouldn't play
if he was going TO be stabbed with
q slice Of melon, SO while his wife
was getting the neIoa seeds out Of
his neck amt,irYipg the inice on his
ehirt, sharpened a cucumber for
Lady Macbeth to use for \ dagger,
but Hamlet kicked on cucumbars
too, and | had iaore trouble than
any stage mana ger ever had.
Then pa wanted to rehearse the
drunken scene III Rip Van Winkie,
where he hugs Gretchen and drinks
out OF a flask behind her back, an d
he got one Of the choir singers to
act as Gretchen, and | gaess he
would have been hugging her till
this time and have swallowed the
/ flask if ina had not took him by the
ear, and said d little Of that would
go a good ways in an entertainment
for the church. Pa says he didn'.
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