The Democratic advocate., 1895-07-06
Our 0liO.
THEIR FIRST PLAY.
rmm the Fipalc companion

When jackson jefferson Bingham took
10 play acting Mrs Bingham carried on
most awful. She and the minister they
believed that there waru no chaucs of
play actors eoin 10 heaven However
the r,st of the family 41u of felt that.
seein there weren much chance before
for jackson jefferson. Il folks Conduct has
anything 10 do with il, there was no need
Of bein To-, desparin Nh Bingham
could ~ on heyin pFayers put up for him
jest ss she always had. and If he shauld
send free tickets, same of the l,lk Thought
they 4 20 and see him
They hadu none of them never h,,rn
into a iheateT aud they iel, they 4 Ike to
see SHAT il was Ike ef it iidn crt nn,h
;ng. The Young folks was al on that side.
and eur A. enough Grauger Whitaker he
was with en-
We lszl a pioas hie grandper said.
fur nigh alout seventy Eve year |
guess M. liked all night IN the ,5hrf
world aud If tlon hurry son never
sec ihesier
80 when JEFF did scud the tickets grand
pr and Ehen and Hammer and jane Jhey
al started ioWn to town; and Jane he
took bsg II cruliers, and Eben h.. i,-,k
handkervhaH Of apples and Hammer he
,ook hn,tle of lemonade. faT there vas
nothia grsndpeg liked - much a. heyia
g,ssl time, and there NJ i,iling vhst
yoa get in thu@e New York restaurants
besides hieS aad when Cousin phiues, had
dinner there onse he ,aw waiter rub up
tie sugar basin with his T.seki, anl arrlua.
Well Ne felt TEAL pleased 80 -~c grand
per ~ chipFer A. we wa a .an
thpsugh the village To- the sta,ian ..raadpsr
held up his head Ike be- Wus "a parads.
aud when anybssiy s,opje.d 20 say, Why.
how 4 We do Where l.. you gsin grand
per Whitaker be APP and hallers right
out, Im soin IN take the boys and
gals up Ia town IA ,he iheaytcT. fur IA
see my sFand~.n Jack~,n jefferson. lsr
f,sln
You see. grandpeT was pcrfe,seJ. and
he'd walked upright al his Iii,. and kBowel
he wRs jest abaat a eo.-i a. any af eui.
ef net oonsidsrbul better.
Every nou and then grandper would
turn his head -sTsndper had a real talent
fur turin his head clear n,and "A IL lo-,k e,l
as ef it growed baekward--and say
Tell you folks see We air ,il a >J,Ts.a.
and | reckon they wish they could 90
along,
- We went ahead lookin far the tents
GrandpeF said iheay,ers always PLAYED in
tents Bat we didm I see nane. nsg nO
place fur nome bur al of sudden We
came to a great splendid house With the
name or the theayter We wanted To >er np
all over il and great l4ietur,S At the doar,
and a policeman -tandin by the lamp
pests
GFandpey l"oks armnd az in and ~el he
Eben ! reckon thing is 20, morc Gxv
sence wu> 4 boy aud went to the circus
and gol whacked fur dolu il when / .."t
home They ye @ot their theayter iuto q
house and sure enough. the poHoeman
said the tickets wus fur that place and We
went in.
\ young gentleman. al fixed up Ike he
was goin 10 get married. showed H. some
seats Grandper he at down an the out
side one.
/ Il be sho, ef il don lonk like meet
in sez he But there 5 band. any
way and pretty soon it began to play
but we didn see nothin unly a little
boy standin on some steps jest as ef he
wlIs .oin 10 come down but felt skeered
until all of a sudden mp he went in the
air. | wus 50 started shruck right out
but Jane she said She thought first it was
big shade with boy painted onto IT,
And then we could see straight into some
body front parior, and there wus the help
a talkin 10 herself and sayin' all sorts OF
things about the family. Then the door
bell rang and in came our Jackson Jeffer-
son! | never wus 80 surprised in my life
He wus all fixed up and he didn take
no more notice Of lis than ef we warren t
there In a minute | saw why. he d
come to call on young lady. and wus 80
taken up by her he hadn' eyes fur nobody
else. didn' mind, but Jane did They
sot on sofa and talked until in come an
old gentleman and asked Jackson Jefferson
what he wus there fur, and told him he
didn' want no low down poor folks comin'
after mis- daughter
Now. there ain nothin fires grandpeI
up 50 as anybody lookin down on his
family, and he riz up from his seat like a
fash He is six feet two is grandper,
and his hair is white and grows real long.
He kin be seen quite a distance Every
body looked at him so pleased they had to
laugh.
..Hullo, youf says he. You, |
mean, talkin to jackson Jefferson ez ef
he wus the dirt under your feet I'll hey
you to know that the Binghams and the
Whittakers air as good families as you kin
find anywheres Jackson Jefferson is quite
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