The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1883-08-11

ever heard of. It's a shame for e
pie outside the profession to do
play acting, and / won't go to the
entertainment unless / get a pass"
said the grocery man. odd you
rehearse any more y
"Yes, the minister wanted to
try the ghost %scene," said the boy,
'and he wanted me to be the ghost.
Well, they have two 'Markses' and
two 'Topsies' in Uncle Toms Cab
in, and | thought two ghosts in
Hamlet would about fill the bill for
amateurs so | got my chum to act
as one ghost. We broke them all
up. | wanted to have something
new in ghosts, so my chum and me
got two pair of mas long stockings
one pair blue and one paired, and
! put on'a red one and a blue one,
and my chum did the same. Then
we got some rufled clothes belong
ing to ma, with fOunces and things
on so they came most down to our
knees, and we put sheets over us,
that came clear to our feet, and
when Hamlet got to yearning for
his father'c ghost, | came in out of
the bath room with the sheet over
me, and said | was the huckleber-
ry he was looking for, and my
chum followed me out and said he
was a twin ghost, also, and then
Hamlet got on his ear and said he
wouldn't play with two ghosts,
and he went off pouting, and then
my chum and me pulled off the
sheets and danced a clog dance.
Wei, when the rest of the troupe
saw our make up, it nearly killed
them. Most of them had seen ballet
dancers, but they never saw them
with different colOred socks. The
minister said this benefit was rap
idly becoming ga farce" and be-
fore we had danced a half a minute
ma she came for me with a hot box,
and made me take them off, and
pa was mad ard said the dancing
was the only thing that was worth
the price OF admission, and he scold-
ed ma, and the choir girls sided
with pa, and Just then my chum
caught his toe in the carpet and
fell down, and hat loosened the
plastering overhead and about a
bushel fell on the crowd. Pa
thought lightning had struck the
house, the minister thought it was
a judgement on them all for play
acting, and he began to she'd his
Hamlet costume with one hand and
pick plaster out ofhis hair with the
other. The women screamed and
tried to get the plaster out of their
necks, and while pa was brushing
the choir singers ma said the re-
hcarsal was adjourned, and they all
went home, but we + going to re-
hcarse again on Friday night. The
play canuot be considered q sue
cess, but we will bring it out all
right by the time the entertainment
is to come off.
by gum" SAID the grocery man,
Il would like to have seen that
minister as Hamlet. Didn't he
look funny 2"
''Iunny Well, l should re-
mark. He seemed to predominant.
That is, he was too fresh, too MI
merous, as it were. But at the
next rehearsal l am going to work
in an act from Richard the Third,
and my chum is going to play the
Chinaman of tie Danites, ard |
guess he will take the cake. Say,
| want to work in an idiot some
whore. How would you like to
play the idiot. You wouldn't have
to rehearse or anything"
AT this point the bad boy was
seen to go out of the grocery real
spry, followed by a box OF wooden
cIothes-pins that the grocery man
laI l,.,u- a4for linn,