Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-08-05
PECK'S BAD BOY.
1.o Dsacons and an Old Maid Taxing
pi,or Parts-The Minister In His wife's
StuckIngs-Ths Bad Boy and
H's Chum as Twin Ghosts.

,,su cot behind the oheeSe OoN Wnlle
,be ghost continued in a sepulchral
,or,e, doomed for q certain time to
uslk the night" and, waving q chair
,,rrd the ghost strobe up to the grocery
n,,n. and with the other ghostly hand
r.srbcd into box of figs.
NO you amt no ghost" said the
,,rrrgrv man, recognizing the bad boy.
.Ghos,s do not go providing around
groceries stealing wormy figs What
10 YOU mean by this sinful masquerade
bp.,r,ss" My father never had no
ghost $500.
.p. We have struck il now said the
bsJlov, as he pulled off his mask ard
roI,d NJ the sheet he had worn around
him. We are going to have amateur
tb.stricalS TO raise money to have the
church captured, and l am gong to
"You don't say" answered the gro
..,v man. as he thought how much he
could sell TO the church people for q
straw irTry aud ice cream festival, and
nv I.,il. he could sell for
Amateur TheatrIcAIS.
..Nhc j. going into it and what you go
irg To P,ay:'
Ia 81. i ma, and me, and the minis
fer sud three choir singers, and my
rl..u.. ami the minister's wife, and two
f.sr.r.S, aud the old maid are rehearS-
mo tut We have not decided what to
rrs. vet. They all want to play ditler-
srr I.av, and | am fixing it 50 they
rsu All Ok. satisfied. The minister wants
10 r,lv Hamlet, pa wants to play Rip
Vsr Wrinkle, ma wants to play Mary
A,trIsor, the old maid wants to play
a leading school play, and the choir
>rrgrJs wants TO play an opera, and the
ministers wife wants to play Lady
Macbeth and my cham and me want
fD iiav = double song and dance, and
am L, ny 10 give them all show. We
lauaIrhearsal last night, and am the
,riN one able To be around to-day. You
-, ley have all been studying differ
,L;ltay>, ana they all wanted to talk
AZ q o.. We left the minister sail in
in. Il. had on pair of his wife's
hls,k Stockings and mantle made OF
hr.r tuggy lap blanket, and he wore
aI..>ou.S cheese knife such as these
fpl..ws with poke bOnnets and white
feathers wear when they get an invita-
liz. 2 funeral or an excursion. Well,
yOr. never saw
BamIet Murdered
m, way lie did it. His Interpretation
ollie character was that Hamlet was
dude that talked through his nose and
while he was repeating Hamlet solilo-
,,l.v. Ia, who had come in with an old
bunting suit on, as Rip Van Wrinkle,
went 10 sleep, and he didn't wake up
ill a;iy Macbeth came in, in the sleep
walking scene. She couldn't find y
knife. - | took q slice of watermelon
and >larItu,d it for her, and she made
sri>lakt in the one she was To stab,
and Stable d Hamlet in the neck with a
slice Ct watermelon, anu the core OF
the melon irIl on pas face, as he lay
ssleep A. Rip, and when Lady Mae
beth said, Out damned spot pa woke
up ard felt the gUb Of watermelon on
his Gagc and he thought he had been
OhTtrCd, and ma came in on hop,
> and jump, A. 'Parthenll.' anu
Nr,.w her arms around q deacon who
was going to play the grave digger, and
began To call him pet names, and pa
was mad, and the choir singers they
began 10 sing, in the North Sea lived a
whale and then they quit acting.
You'd a Giie To see Hamlet. The piece
ufvatermelou went down his neck, and
Lady Macbeth went OIL and left it in
the wound under his collar, and ma
hal to pull il out, and Hamlet said the
~rt,> aud the juice was running down
Inside His Shirt,
.,,.G 4. A D. x1-pv,lHF,'f YNlaNr - no Nyll
gOirg 10 be stabbed with n slice OF
melon, so while his wife was getting
the melon seeds out his neck, and dry
ing the Juice ON his shirt, | sharpened a
Cucum Der for Lady Macbeth to use for
a dagger, tut Hamlet kicked on cucdm-
bers, too, and | had more trouble than
any stage manager ever had. Then pa
wanted To- rchearse the drunken scene
in Eip Van Wrinkle, where he hugs
Grtrntrn aud drinks out of flask be-
hind her back, and he got one of the
choir singers To act as Grechten, and l
guess he would have been hugging her
till this time, and have swallowed the
flask If ma had not took him by the ear,
and said little of that would go q good
ways in an entertainment for the
church. Pa said he didn't as it was
any worse than her prancing up to a
grave digger and hugging him till the
filling came out Of his teeth, and then
the minister decided that he wouldn't
have any hugging at all in the play,
and the choir girls said they wouldn't
play, and
The Old Maids struck,
and the play come to a stand still"
"Well, that beats anything l ever
heard tell of. It's a shame for people
outside the profession to do play acting,
and won't 20 to the entertainment un-
less get a pass, said the grocery man.
ibid you rehearse any more"
"Its, the minister wanted to try the
ghost scpne,n said the boy, "and he
wanted me TO be the ghost. Well, they
have two Markses and two Topsies IN
Uncle Toms Cabin, and | thought two
ghosts in Hamlet would about I'LL the
bill for amateurs, so / got my chum to
aOt as one ghost. We broke them all
up. wanted to have something new
in ghosts, so my chum and me got two
pairs of mas long stockings, one PAIR
red and one pair blue, and l put on a
red one and blue one, and my chum
lid the same. Then we got some rut-
ACAl NlblLCH bNANAASiAS ~ AN-f
flounces and things on, and put them
on so they came most down to our
knees, and we put sheets over US, that
came clear to our feet, and when Ham
let got to yearning for his fathers
ghost came in out Of the bath room
with the sheet over me, and said was
the huckleberry he was looking for, and
my chum followed me out and said he
was
Alvin Ghost,
also. and then Hamlet got on his ear,
and said he wouldn't play with two
ghosts, and he went of pouting, and
then my chum and me pulled of the
sheets and danced q clog dance. Well,
when the rest of the troupe saw our
make up il nearly killed them. Most
of them had seen ballet dancers, but
they never seen them with different
eolOred socks. The minister said this
benefit was rapidly becoming q farce
and before We had danced half min
ute ma she recognized her socks, and
she came for me with hot box, and