The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-06-09
SHAKESPEARE DOWN TO DATE
1.-THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH.
fourth Of the Series of Masterpieces

wobbles, and I'm ashamed of him. If
the keeleys aren't crowded, it's a stall
there for hubby till further orders"
They ski-did. Also they did a lot
of talking, and rib-poking on the side.
That dinner was the talk of Scotland
for days and days.
Now there was another Mac in
Scotland-Macduff The latter was
pretty middling sore on how things
were running in the kingdom. He had
mighty good bunch that Macbeth
was a corrupt citizen, though he
couldn't prove it. He was heard often
to mutter that he wished the day of
undertaking was not so far in the fut
ure, or he would sick some magazine
onto the Authenticated schemer. He
had refused to go to that dinner, and
his wife was awfully sore at him
about it, for she didn't get any of the
scandal at all first hand, and tne other
aldermans wives had the bulge on her
a-plenty. He got so leary of the crowd
in charge of the administration that
he crossed his fingers and Hoped for
London. Hearing which, Macbeth had
some of his domestic help go down
and kill Macduff's entire household, in
Guiding the canary and the goldfish
In the the meantime, Macbeth had
been for a little tetea-tete with the
spooks again. They had showed him
a deal of eight kings, and he kicked,
knowing there were only four in the
deck. But they had jollied him a lot
and told him that until the Birnam
forest came walking up the road to
Dunsinane, where Mac lived, he would
remain king. That looked easy. Mac
laughed at their little jest and went
home, only to be informed that things
were doing.
con the way home he murmured
that just because he lived where he
did, he was no Ounce inane. He was
afterward killed for this, his worst
crime.)
1t seems that when Macduff heard
about his family being killed, he
frowned, and went so far as to express
openly his disapproval of it. The
young sons of the late perforated Dunk
were also present, and as they were
all pretty sore, they decided they
would make a sashay up to where
Mac was, and just everlastingly swat
him.
In the same meantime there had
been a little pinkertonia going on at
Macs house. A doctor and another
chap had got onto the fact that Mrs
Mac was communicating extensively
and talking when she walked. One day
they lay for her and watched her come
along. AS she did so, they heard her
say, "Out, damned spot" Knowing
the king had house dog named Spot
they thought she was just putting him
out for the night, till they heard her
say it was blood spot on her hand
she was trying to launder off. She
gave away few more family secrets
1t was shame she did it, but by that
time she and Mac had grown so ner-
vous that if they had killed only three
or four people during the course of a
day they slept jerkily. They couldn't
sleep more than nine hours night, to
save them.
Every now and again somebody else
from up in Scotland, where things
were gloomier than an issue of Punch
would get tired of the sepulchral sit.
uation and join the fnuck-rakers from
London who were coming up the line
with their pockets full OF rocks and the
bits in their teeth. But Mac wouldn't
listen. He kept saying that until those
woods at Birnam came to Dunsinane
he was safe.
One day this big, disguised army
stopped to rest under the bushes at
Birnam, and one chap with queer no
tions suggested that, in order to fool
Dunk as to the size of their delegation
| they pull off limbs from the trees and
| hold them up before them when they
/ approached Macs roadhouse. They
did so, and when the old man saw
this advance agent of the re-forestine
| movement drilling up the pike he
knew it was all off with him, and that
the witches joke wasn't anything OF
the sort. He rushed out to meet them
though game as a dornick, and greet
ed his old friend Layon Macduff by
his first name, as sassy as a squirrel
When the battle was over, Shakes
peare was the sole survivor.
| Moral--You can't kill very many
people and get along right with the
better class of your neighbors.