Judge — July 24, 1897 — page 6: what you’re looking at

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alF ae talent performers.” SS 4 ae though, on the stand- ey, point from which you rea looked at it. The spec- oye tator who was inclined seat to be critical and a a stickler for historic ac- eek curacy and the preser- +s) vation of the entities it was doubtless disap- reas A pointed; but the person Lexya who was accustomed aa to having his pleasure LR more or less mixed with es pain couldn't justly have complained that he didn’t get his money's worth, it seems to me. “To be sure, Noah's whiskers kept drop- ping off at critical junctures, or else turning around to one side and occasionally clear up on top of his head. and embarrassing him visibly. It took his thoughts from his acting just when he most needed them, and caused him to get the names of his three sons mixed up in the most / inextricable confusion and call them Hem, Sham and Japhet, and Jem, Shay and Hamphat, and so on, till finally the sons themselves became so badly tangled in their own minds that none of the three seemed to know which one of the boys he was. The animals, which were represented by sundry prominent young society people ar- rayed in bear-skin rugs, buffalo-robes, blankets, and the like, did very well, considering all things ; but Iam kinder of the opinion that theit imper- sonations would have been a little bit more effect- ive if they had done less audible giggling. “That is almost all there was to criticise about the performance, except that a part of the sky fetched loose and fell down in the midst of A GRIEVOUS ERROR. ConRN—"* See here, meesder; dere vas a misdake in mein dax.bill alretty.”” COUNTRY TAX-COLLECTOR—"" I don’t see but what it's all regular enough.” Cones —" Loog agen, meesder. Vou god me sharged von tollar Pole tax und | am a Heprew. WIR ERY PLEASANT AFFAIR. “1 understand that there was some kind of an entertainment in the town-hall last night?” tentatively remarked the drummer who was whiling away the interval till train time. “Yes,” replied the landlord of the Squam Corners tavern, “A cantata, called ‘ The Sailing of the Ark,’ was given by Noah and a company of home- as to that girl, 7 * No; you bet I won't. That's my wife, and I've just had a quarrel with her.”” uae “Ab! I presume it was a pleasant affair?” “Well, yes; in certain ways it was, That depended a good deal, GOOD BETTING, “The raging waters were finally quieted with audible promises of re- wards and maltreatment, as the individual cases of various billows seemed to demand, and the ark was ‘set up again and eventu- ally sailed, to the evident relief of everybody impli- cated in the matter, That ended the performance, except that when Japhet came to the front of the stage to thank the audience for their lib- eral patronage and kind | applause the curtain- roller fell down on his \! head and blamed near brained him; which 1 considered pretty rough on Japhet, for, as far as I could see, he wasn't any worse than the rest of 'em.” you dare not go over and speak ‘THE BEE—** That was a fine garden, but somebody got in it ahead of me.” CROWDING THE MOURNERS. Jongs—‘* It's perty tough where th’ miskeeters even eat a feller's bait, b’gosh !” an otherwise solemn pause and disconcerted everybody a good deal, including the red-headed boy who had been perched aloft to make it rain, with the aid of a bushel of dried peas, when the proper time came, and in his anxiety to see how the performance was going got overbalanced and came tumbling down headfore- most, bringing the whole rain-storm along with’ him. ‘This interpolation caused Noah to forget his ‘lines’ altogether, and, knowing that he would be in a pretty pickle if he sailed off in the ark without any definite idea of what he was going to say or do next, he sprang right out of the vessel and started to hop, skip and jump in the most inadvertent manner off across the waste of waters to the dressing-room, for the book. “When he jumped from the ark he landed on the bent back of one of the lads whose part it was to hump around under the green cloth and agitate the watery waste in a realistic manner. From that boy's back Noah hopped to another, and so on across the great deep, his progress being immediately followed by ter- rific convulsions beneath the surface, accompanied by indignant announcements of willingness to be darned if such treatment would be endured any longer. The billows tossed so violently that very soon the ark was burst asunder and the front side fell down flat, reveal- ing Shem, Ham and Japhet amicably swapping chew- ing-gum with the animals. SMS A NATURAL MISTAKE comicbooks.com