Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-06-07

nifty that is only gained by experience,
aud / take hold of the carpet the way
Hamlet takes up the skull of Yorick
and the audience is paralyzed. kneel
down on the carpet, to unlock it, in a
devotional sort ola way that makes the
audience bow their heads as though
they were in church, and before they
realize that am only a supe | have
the carpet unlocked and march out
the way a 'Piscopal minister does
when he goes out between the acts at
church to change his shirt They
never guy me, cause | act we'll my
part. But kick on holding dogs for
actresses. Some supes think they are
made If they can held a dog, but /
have an ambition that pug will net
| fill. / held Mary Anderson's sud of
gum once, while she went on the
I stage, and when she come off and took
her gum her fingers touched mipe and
| had to run my fingers in my hair to
warm them, like fellow does when he
has been snow balling. Gosh, but she
would freeze ice cream without salt. /
shall be glad when the theatrical sea
son opens, cause we actors get tired
laying Off"
We'll, I'd like to 90 behind the
scenes with you some night" said the
grocery man, offering the bad boy an
orange to get solid with him, in view
of future complimentary tickets. mo
danger. is there2"
No danger it you keep off the grass.
But you'd dide to see my Sunday
school teacher one Saturday night last
summer. He keeps books in a store,
and is pretty soon week days, but he
can tell you more about Daniel in the
lions den on Sunday than anybody.
He knew l was solid at the theater,
and wanted me to get him behind the
scenes one night, and another supe
wanted to 60 to the sparrIng match
and thought it wouldn't be any harm
20 work the teacher in, SO | got him
job that night to hold the dogs for the
Uncle Toms Cabin" show. He was
in one of the wings holding the chains,
and the dogs were just anxious to go
on and it was all my teacher could do
to hold them. | told him to wind the
chains around his wrist aud he did so,
and just then Eliza began to skip across
the ice and we sicked the bloodhounds
on before my teacher could unwind the
chains from his wrist, and the dogs
pulled him right on the stage, on his
stomach, and drawed him across, ard he
jerked one dog and kicked him in the
stomach, and the dog turned on my
teacher and took a mouthful of his
coat tail and shook it, and / guess the
dog got some meat, anyway the teacher
climbed up step ladder, and the dogs
freed him, and the step ladder tell
down, and we grabbed the dogs and
put some court plaster on the teachers
nose, where the fire extinguisher
peeled it, and he said he would 20
home, cause the theater was demoral.
izing in its tendencies. spose it was
not right, but when the teacher stood
up to hear our Sunday school lesson
the next day, cause he was tired where
the dog bit him, | said sick ZEN, in a |
whisper, when his back was turned, |
and he jumped clear over to the Bible
class, and put his hand around to his |
coat tail as though he thought the
Uncle Toms Cabin party were giving
matinee in the church. The Sunday
school lesson was about the dogs lick.
ing the sores of Lazarus, and the
teacher said we must not confound |
the good dogs of Bible time with the
savage beasts of the present day, thatf
would shake the daylights out Of Lac
arus and make him climb the Lebanon |
cedars quicker than you could say J ack |
Robinson, and go off chewing the cud |
OF bitter reflection on Lazarus Goa.
tail. | don't think Sunday-school |
teacher ought to bring up personal
"reminiscences before a class of chill
dren, do your Well, some time next
tall you put on a clean shirt and a pair
OF sheet iron pants, with legs on the
inside, and | will take you behind the
scene to see some good moral show.
In the meantime, if you have occasion
to talk with pa, tell him that Booth.
and Barrett, and Keene, commenced
on the stage as supes, and Salvini
roasted peanuts in the lobby Of some
theater. | want our folks to feel that
| am taking the right course to become
star. | prythee 'au reservoir l 20
hens, but to return. Avauntp' And |
the bad boy walked out on his toes Ia
Booth.