New-York tribune., 1885-01-11
MARK TWAIN.
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.t+er sun-up. but now we went right on
~ s,a,.t tie I'D. The king and the duke turneo
snu ~. ,.nd.by. looking pretty rusty; out ai.er
ouH ...uoa overheard and took swim, 1t CHIP
tney nm a good deal After breakfast the
perou - .oot a seat on a corner OF the raft, ana
A'ns - b;s boots and rolled up his britches' anu
lars dange in the water, SO as 10 oe coni'o'"
md N his pipe and went to getting Ms "oineo
,rIst by heart. When he mad GOT IL pretty
An s, him and the duke begun to prac'ise u w.
s..hsr The duke had to learn him over anu oNo'
s0' how IN saw every speech; and he made nun
ags'n III ,ut his hand on his heart. and after
s'sr sn. ha said he done it pretty well; "ony' he
"n con mustn't below out Romeo! that way.
:s','s hui-yon must say it SOFT and SICK ana
,su;shv so-R.oomco that is the IDEA lor
I,;o,s dear sweet mere child of girl, you Know
avid sbe don't bray like jackass"
NJ, raxt they got out q couple OF long SWORDS
:, '. .ho duke made out of oak laths. and begun 10
nr.ct;se the sworl-6ght-the duke caiien himsc'i.
p.aarI IT. and the way they laid on and planced
.rouna the raft was grand to see. But oy-ahuoy
.hs King tripped and fell overheard and after that
.hsv took rest. and had talk about all kinns Oh
oaven,nres they'd had in other times along the river
After dinner the duke says
aWel Capet, we'll want to make TINS hiS|
o,ess show. you know Sd gnoss we'll add ht''o
moro 10 If. We want little something TO answer
encores with anyway
aWhat onkores Bilgewaterl" I"
This duke told him. aud then says
am answer by dc; ng the Highland fling or the
.,uoys borp.pipe and you. we'll, let me see oh,
I've got it-you can 90 hamiet 8 so'ioS"''
@Hamlets which ~
aHom,et,s soliloouy, YOU know; the most cele-
brated thing in Shakespeare. All, its sublime, sub
,msi ALWAYS fetches the house. l haven't got II
in the book-Pve only got one vOlume-but reckon
7 can niece il out from memory. I'll Just walk up
and down n minute, and if can call 1t back
from recollection's vanlts"
80 he went marching up and down, thinking ana
frownng horrible every now and then: tneh he
would hoist up his eyebrows; next he would squeeze
his hand ON his forehead and stagger back and kind
of moan; ; next he would sigh. and next hed iet on
TO drop tear. 1t was beautiful to see MN. by
and.by he got IL. He told us to give attention
Then he strikes q most noble attitude with one leg
,hoyed forward, and his arms stretched away ur'
and his head tilted back. looking up at the sky ana
then he begins to rip and and grit his teeth
and after that all through Lis speech he howled.
and spread around and swelled up his chest, and
inst knocked the spots ont of any acting ever see
before This is the speech-I learned II. easy
enough while he was learning it to the king
To be- or not to he that is the bare bodkin
That makes calamity Of so long lite :, -
For would fardes BEAR till Birnam WOOD 10 come
But that the fear OF something afier death
Murders the innocent sleep,
Great natures second course, .
Than fiy to others that we know not OF.
There's the respect must give us pause: . - 49,.
wake Duncan with thy knocking would tnou couldst;
For who would bear the Whips and sccrns OF time,
The law delay. and the Quietus which his pangs might
In the dead waste and middle of the night when church
In customary suits Of solemn black. ,..
Ds that the undiscovered country from whose bourne
no tfgvciof foiirus -,
Breahes forth contagion on the world ~ 49,. , oa,
And thus the native hue Of resolution like the poor cat
And all the clouds that lowered DER our housetops,
With this regard their currents turn awry,
Tis a consammation devoutly to be wished Bat soft
you, the fair Ophelis:
But get thee to a nunnery-go!
Well. the old. man he liked that speech, and he
mighty soon got it so he could do it first rate 1t
seemed like he was just born for it; and when he
had his hand in and was excited. it was perfectly
lovely the way he would rip and tear and rair up
behind when he was getting it of.
The first chance we got, the duke he had some
show bills printed and after that for two or three
days az we foated along, the raft was most un-
Il E--A ..t< not, ,f,fxb bt.t
sword-ng nghting and rehearsing-as the duke called
it-going on all the time. One morning. when we
was pretty well down the State of Arkansaw, we
come in sight Of little one-horse town in a big
bend; so we tied up abont three-auarters of mile
above it, In the mouth of a crck which was shut in
like tunnel by the cypress trees, and all OF us but
Jim took the canoe and went down there to see if
there was any chance in that place for our show.
We struck it mighty lucky. there going TO
be circus there that afternoon, and the country
people was already beginning to come In. in all
Kinds of old shackly wagons, and on horses. The
circus would leave before night, our show would
have q pretty good chance The duke he hircd the
court house, ana went around and stuck up our
bills They read like this
shakespearean Revval!!
Wonderful Atraction
For One Night Onyl
The world renowned tragcdians.
David Garrick the younger, OF Drury Lane
Theatre london.
Edmund Kean the elder, OF the Royal Haymarket
Theatre. Whitechape, Pudding Lane. Picca-
dilly London, aud the Royal Continen-
tai Theatres in their sublime
shakespearean Spectacle
entitled
The Balcony Scene
In
Romeo and Juliet u
Romeo ..............-.......-......Mr .Mr GarrtcE
Assisted by the whole strength Of the company
New costumes. new scenery, new appointments
Also
The thrilling. mastery and bood-curdling
Broad-s word conflict
In Richard III. III