The Hawaiian gazette., 1886-10-26
lips Dream.
account.

| As boy was always fond of watching Punch
| and Judy show, and from childhood EDWARDS, L
have never been able to resist the fascination of
| Punch and Judy and the dog Toby, and the pup
| pets SO dexterously worked, and the drama so
comically carried out, albeit the poor puppets re-
ceived scanty justice, more correctly, glarlng
injustice at the hands of the controlling powers,
while the audience was, of course, invariably
! heeced.
| Thinking of old times, suppose, led me to
dream that again was looking on a Punch and
| Judy show.
dreamt that saw Punch and Judy stand
| pitched, and the wire puller get inside. Punch
was the the left, and Toby on the right of the
proscenium, there were men with big drums and
| gaudy uniforms passing round the hat, and the
| play was in full swing.
! The Punch of my dream was not exactly the
Punch of my childhood, for though equally I'M
considerable, he was not so good natured. In face
| and figure the same powerful hooked beak was
there, but the hump on the back was reduced to
| the common stoop and round shoulders of an
binary elderly gentleman trying to look respecta-
| BILE.
AS to Toby, be was somewhat different from the
estimable Toby of my youth.
that which seemed his head"
| The likeness of a kingly crown had on
Here my dream became for time confused
and indistinct,-but of Punch himself l OBJ
served that he had added long white pointed
| beard to his former dignity, and had sundry
apparently homogeneous ornaments penGantfrom
! neck breast, of which the only ones L
4 could make out In detail were one which looked
! like bishops mitre with three crowns surround
ing it, another was of Birmingham gilt in the
shape of an open book, on the pages of which were
inscribed the letters NOR MON, another was
either sun or a soup plate could not tell which.
1t was evident that when in my dream, | first
saw the show, it had been going on for some time,
for the ground in front of the stage was fairly
Uttered with discarded puppets. Of these some
! lay sadly torn IS 10 inery and besmirched to
mud. Others on the contrary seemed to have
fallen on their feet, and were looking up deantly
| at the platform whence they had been thrown.
Of the puppets remaining on the platform all
| were In a tremulouS excitement, sometimes
piteous sometimes ludicrous to behold, several
noticed bore large splashes of white wash and
| others we're Sorely IN need of the same
This seemed to be, roughly, the personnel of the
! show.
! The action, when | Joined the crowd appeared
| thus:
Three puppets had Just been pitched off from the
| platform, of whom one was clambering back into
his place, the other two we're aghast at their fall,
while Punch, safe on his corner, looked on with
grin, at Once-would be benefcent, but wholly
malicious-such as versatile unprincipled " deus
er mdchiHa" only wear.
! A puff of wind at this moment threw aside the
| curtain which had concealed the manipulation of
| all these puppets. | thought | saw a powerful
| looking man, about the middle height, but broad
shouldered. deep chested, forcbe in profile, and
strong in language. He and Punch, and Toby
seemed to look on each other with mingled feel
ings of hope and fear, with utmost disgust and
disdan, and, the part of the wire puler. of in
Z ulguant disappointment; W1lle Tie Otner Two
seemed fearfully conscious OF temporary triumph,
but apprehensiye of impending disaster. Each
ready to fly at the throat of the other if he
/ could do SO without the loss of dig 10,
of dollars
At the feet of tine Snowman appeared several
boxes from which the puppets had been Withdrawn
and either were in or had been discarded.
Amongst these seemed to see two labelled IS. f.
! lawyer" one "Mor Proph.", one or two others
"Australasian usefulness" Some other empty
boxes, superior in make and cleanliness were
marked "Old servants" Custom House. Post
Office, Marshalate, etc. A box only half opened
was marked rep. Hon. . but this and the ad-
dresses of other boxes were so hidden lby white
wash as to be illegibe.
The most remarkable thing the invariable
scowl of distrust and illconcealed hatred towards
one another, of the manager, Punch and Toby
| The puppets lying on the board or stage seemed
occasionally to lift their heads suppliantly and
were awarded accordingly by Pinch, with knock
on the head and perhaps fresh label.
The opinions of the audience seemed to have
little influence the performers The better sort
seemed to think that if the wire pullers, Punch
and Toby, made up their differences, that they
the audience, would be pretty severely taxed.
However, the hat was passed round again, the
management promised to spend two dollars for
every one taken in, and so my dream came to
end, my shoeblack announcing that owing to the
impending extension of the Punch and Judy En-
pire his charges would be 331% per cent above his
former prices. | awoke!-
= 1t was not all Dream ZIP.