The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-03-03
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chunk of bowling wild cat. That
child knew it was on the stage and
hogged the scene with every last
trick of a cheap actorine Mibb tried
to comfort it and get word in be-
tween breaths. The other players
came on as they were supposed to
come on but not a word could get
across the footlights. That infant
kicked and fought and squealed. The
scene was finished somehow in a pan
demonium of terrific bawls; and
Mibb got white-faced fearing it would
go into commissions. Slug Truman
suggested she lay it on its stomach
and George Griffin from behind made
some frightfully suggestive panto-
mime with his property hammer and
all the mothers in the audience said
it was a shame to abuse child so
but what could you expect from that
| Hoadley woman-she never had
brain in her mead anyhow Again it
was up to George to do something
and again George did it.
"Run down the curtain" he
i ordered.
The curtain was lowered but did
/ that child notice it? No. 1t was
! very peevish child and set in it's ways
Its mother le:ped up, once the cur
tain had fallen and took it and patted
it on the back and laid it over her
shoulder and said let her get out and
i, take it home and George said yes
| for Gawd's sake let her. And the
Hoadley woman postponed settling
with George until more suspicious
time and the audience followed that
child in all it's journeyings for the
next three minutes, twice around the
| stage and downstairs to where the
mother got her wraps and down the
stairs outside and along the wall of
! the opera house under the east
windows and down the street until a
/ merciful distance made the episode
only a nightmare.
And Uncle Joe Fodder in the front
row remarked that "Out of the
! mouths of babes and sucklings the
/ Lord may have ordained truth; but
not that Hoadley sucking! 1t was
| a delusion and a snare and undoubt-
edly would end its days on the
gallowsw
! There were many other incidents
! in that play amusing enough if told
at length but they have no vital bear
ing on our story. Jack came in and
| surprised Mary-he caressed her as
per schedule in which some boys in
the gallery assisted with shrill
whistles He went throgh the usual
pabulum of an amateur play, stiffly
and akwardly and half-frightened
/ out of his senses. Frank Whitcomb,
! who was messenger and boy of all
work in Amos Farmers bank entered
in the capacity Of william and enticed
Mary away to the city. The Hender-
! son girl sang her songs getween the
acts. In the second act young Sam
! Hold nearly upset the scenery by
catching his toe under corner while
! coming on at run and between the
second and third act tragedy was
narrowly averted when someone need
ed barrel and didn't know what to
do with the property tinware it con-
tanned, and George told them to lift
up the trap door in the stage and
dump it into regions below, and some
one did and Colonel Jethro Wilson
was down there underneath the trap
door ssseeing what he could see" and
| got the whole five-and-ten-cent store
poured merrily on his head.
In the last act, too, after Jack had
rescued his heroine for the last time
from the tolls of the villain, the cur
tain did not respond (for verify old
Peter Ferguson had fallen asleep in
the scenery loft under the soothing
influence of the strong liquor by
| which he was ensnared.' The per-
picked audience were still further
perplexed by eight of George Griffin
appearing suddenly in the middle of
the stage where the final love scene
was in process and shouting damn
your immortal soul, send down that
curtainl" and firing his property ham,
mer insanely up into the wings This
brought down the curtain in one IL
tanic flop, as though all the strings
had been cut and it had fallen from
the skies. But everyone declared that