The Arkansaw traveler. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1882-1???, 1883-06-30
plauding because Patti is on the. stage.

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"Sakes alive, is that il? thought we
were all ahre. or Virgins food had
come. so that is Mrs. Patti: Well.
declare fort. She's as spry as a cricket.
and no mistake. Why. Louisa, how old
IS She: She looks scarcely out Of her
teens =
o, aunt. you mustn't be so practical.
and ask such personal questions. Ladies
don always want their ages known; but
sotfo zoe, she's over forty" -
is il possible: Well. she's remark
ably we'll preserved. There, they're at ii
| again what's the matter now"
why. scalchi has appeared; don't
you see"
What, tina, dapper little fellow bow
ing and scvaping and smiling. Is he
/ Mr.. Scalchi:"
That's Madame Scalehi, aunt, only
she's taking the part of Arsaces, the COM
nander Of the Assyrian army, you know. !"
Louisa. you are sure that this Is a
perfectly proper place: | only wish
| leleg was here. for then perhaps |
shouldn't feel SO sort o skeery like and
guilty.
30 aunt. Just listen isn't tina, en-
/ quisiie:'
Massy sus. Louisa, this beats the
+ Haymakers tha, we had in showdown last
winter all out and out. and we thought
/ they went little ahead Of anything on
! this continent. But what is ii all about !:
can't understand any more Of their
lingo than II they were singing IN high
+ Dutch
III read you the argument. aunt and
+ then perhaps you can follow them. They
are singing in Italian.
L want to know II tina, glibbersh is
Italian, Well. | only wish Feleg Was
here. He always had a kind of faculty
for understanding anything furren. /
heard him tell French Canadian who
worked for us in haying last summer.
that he might pitehee ong, and rakee
after, or helpee the other mang p,ehee
OF and stowee away and a iickelder
man than that Ganuck you never seed
He yah-hawed and held on 10 his sides
like to split. till was afeared he'd raise
the whole neighborhood. Poor fellow |
suppose II sounded kinder good to him
TO hear his own lingo spoke, and so un-
expected, too. He looked at your uncle
IN queer sort of way. and said. when he
could speak for haw-hawing, We'll. If it
han't no odds TO you, guess I'll help
the other man stow away To be sure
ieleg's book farming hain't overly much,
but believe he could travel from Dan
to Beersheba and make himself under
stood
Now. aunt. we mustn't speak another
word till the opera is through, because
We disturb other people
: suppose We do. out whenever any
thing happens you nudge me and I'll
nudge you. or We can squeeze hands :
that IS the way ieleg and do when we
30 10 the lyeeum. It's sort o social and
everybody can hear lust as we'll.
BE. rags o lusing her
ii speme. { "a piocer
sang the glorious voice
Bravo Bravo, Brava'' rang from
ali parts of the house.
Haoray
-" iihr. dun, Ttboy. 81 dos.W :"
Fl feles we're only here Hip-hip"
Aunt. IN PHYS name keep sull :
Don't get so excited.
We'll, never The sweats lust a
rolling OF o me and I'm as weak As
rag baby wish had my turkey tail :
that mite OF a tan of yogrs don, give
wind enough 20 cool a mouse"
Now. aunt. do keep quiet. You'll
hear better and won't get so warm
Well, dear, suppose you are right
but didn't that sound like an angel
CHOIR
Twas certainly very fine One thing
is sure, you've heard Patti at her hes, /"
Pm so glad cum. And if releg
was only along there, hain't goinN
to speak again till the uproar is over
AID so the opera wen, on, Mont
Dsra, and Claudio holding rioh. firm
background of deep tone to the brilliant.
soul-entrancing vooalism Of the soprano
and contralio.
" Louisa Alden. wha, are them hall
nude statutes standing up in the back
there: Don't they realize tina, the l,shul
congregation can see them. and haven,
they any modesiy:"
Why. aunt. that's the ballet
=" The bare what
The ballet. aunt. Look. look. there
they come. Ism, lha, The yer. poetry OF
mo"
louisa Sophronia Taber Alden. JUS,
YOU pick up your regimen,als and ioler
~ .''" ''iA' iN'Ne n wv
But, aunt
on needn't bu, aunt me lust &c,
your buds together and we'll travel.
Thank goodness your Uncle peleg Josiah
Taber is not here. Don't let me see YOU
give as much as glance 10 where them
graceless nndities are piroutting, or, big
as you are, Ill box your ears"
Why, aunt =
Louisa only wish had my
thiekes, veil, for I'm positively ashamed
to be caught in this unohristian sorape.
Come. and don't raise your eyes. There.
thank goodness. we're in pure air a, las, =
Why. aunt, though, you were en-
loy.ng the opera"
The uproar. Louisa: have nothing
TO say agin the uproar. Them voices
would grace celestial choif. this say
with all reverence. bu, that side how
wouidni have had my Eliza ANA nor
my Woodman Harrison witnessed wha,
we came near witnessing for a thous-