Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1909-07-08

parts Of the house "Truchette! Truchettel This is
one of his tricks This is but lad He cannot do the
feats OF monsieur"
Rudolph saw that his slight hold of the audience
would be gone in moment unless he did something to
arrest attention He knew enough about audiences to
know that Of the grasp of the artist it we'll
nigh impossible to get them back again. FIe mnedi-
atcy determined on his Of action His stay OF
two years with his master as assistant had given him
good coiuard Of The regular stage jargun common to
jugglers And being exceedingly observant, he had
learned many things Of which monsieur himself
ignorant and had pacscd tricks OF his
own He was bold ard determined succeed. And
his vision there fitted inspire him the little
mother and the sister in VIC vale Of Canprais Tor whom
lie serving monsieur, and whom he hoped before
long to visit when he had earned little more.
He his fingers through his curly hair and began
TO laugh The cries OF the audience ceased and very
the people began to laugh, too Rudolpt's laugh
was so contagious In the midst Of it all Rudolph raised
MS hand and pointed to the ceiling of the teatcr In
stany every eye turned that way.
Seel' cried Rudolph "See the messengers of
Cupid on their way, coming down to earth to bring a
mis- sive to the taircst lady in San Bcnito!'
1t was common tricl. Of the master jugglcr but it
happened to be new the people of San Eenio. A
pair of snowlic doves appeared to fly down from the
very center Of the theacr dome They alightcd upon
Rudolph's shoulders In the bill of Of the birds was
tended to read as follows:
"This to the farcst in San Bcnito
"Cupd sends thee greeting, wishing thee beatty and
happiness many and assures thee that thy beauty
will fade and thy happiness vanish if thou dost irown
upon him who is specially favored Of the gods
RUDOLPH CLUNY OF CampraS
There was moments quiet from the audience and
then the generous applause that followed assured Ru
doph that his first attempt had given him favor with the
He lied nd he bird
trick seemingly impossible in reality very SIM
pie The doves welrained pets OF NJ. Truchctte.
Rudolph had upon the stage with the birds
ceacd in OF the frofondes, deep pockets OF his
dress-coat When he pointed to the ceiling OF the thea
ter and every eye in the audience directed It. he
drew the birds from the trofonde and tossed them up
into the air They SCARED up it'll higher and then
settled back upon the young mans shoulders. Every
one is familiar with the fact that the eye is easily de-
ccved distances. To the audience appeared
il the birds actually came down from the dome. The
light dim up there. and any rate there the birds
were, and they did 1y from somewhere and alight on
the lads shoulders. AS for the letter. Rudolph simply
by rapid movement, he caressed bird, placed
bit of paper within its bill And the rest easy,
every stage jugglcr is provided with plenty to say,
speeches of Haery just to divert the audi
ence as much as possible from the movements OF the
hands
Over the audience went that rustic OF expectation
the
sound, caused by the sudden catching OF breath the
part Of many people Rudolph, with the sensitive acute
Of the artist heard and interpreted the sound
to interest the part of the audience that
would increase with the of his performances
He felt proud to think that he succeeding well
the start and proceeded with his trick with
ubiant feeling in his heart.
This was the Mysterious Table on which he placed
basket of oranges which after being covered with
siken CLOTH were transformed to OF frest-cut
The trick succeeded perfectly, did also the
mysterious Curtain another iavoritc trick of his
clever master The trick witnessed by the simple
but sharp-eyed people OF San Beno with feelings of
asonshment and loud cries of Bravo!" greeted the
youthful performer. who bowed his Acknowledgements
and felt very happy he proceeded with his next at
tempt, the Magic Painting"
This also entirely TO the people of San
Bcnito, who were beginning to have an admiration for
this young man from Campras They watched the per-
Torrance with great eagerness. While Rudolph, who
had before attempted the magic painting alore
determined that what might he would succeed
with it. But alas. Who anticipate all the POSSIBLE
tiles which await one in that difficult game of lcgcr-
dernain?
A gilt frame, four feet square, resting upon easel!
had been standing upon the stage during the perform
Rudolph now placed it upon small platform
which he brought out from behind the scenes saying
he did So that he Wanted everybody to thc> most
wonderful painting in all Europe, or for that matter in
the world
Within the picture frame piece of blank canvas
or what appeared to be this. Rudolph now walked de-
liberaely the side of the stage and waved his wand
The people looked in breahlcss anticipation Slowly
the outlines of landscape began to be visible the
canvas Then they disappeared and Rudolph turned
pale and for the first time in the evening seemed dis
concerted The trick had failed, and owing to the
peculiar way in which it was performed by the master,
Rudolph was uncertain concerning the next
lie hcsitated, and for moment he confused that
ne could not think of anything to do say in order to
cover his failure.
That hesitation was fatal TO him The tickle audience
began to hiss Rudolph stretched out his arm with a
gesture OF beseeching appeal It too late The
people began to raise the cry "ruchettc Truchette,
Rudolph stepped to the footghs and tried to pacfy
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