Judge — July 23, 1910 — page 7: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE Bantam—Prince of Barnyard. Founded upon a play by Shakespeare and done into feathers by Harvey Peake. 1 give a ban (The success of * Chantecte ‘oar best dramas for seve Cast or CHaractel King of the coop. (Prince of Barnyard from a former setting of eggs ( by the present queen, I Dominiker Bantam Plymouth Rock..A friend of Bantam, Wyandotte +Son of Shangha Two Cock ravediggers. Ghost of Bantam’s father. . s Queen of the coop and Minorca ...... } “ Bantam's mother. Buff Cochin.....Daughter of Shanghai. Ducks, Geese, Peacocks, Peahens, Guinea Fowls, Turkeys, etc. Place—A chicken coop and its environs, Act I. A platform before the coop at midnight. Bantam and Plymouth Rock are peering fearfully into the darkness, as if expecting a visit from the Black Hand. BantamM—'Tis now the witching hour of night, when graveyards yawn and coons molest our roosts. Say, now, ’tis but my fancy, Plymouth Rock, but methinks I see approach, as ‘tis said to have approached last night, the ghost of my ill-fated father, who mysteriously disappeared this day a week agone. PiymoutH Rock—'Ti so, it makes strange signs. It would be spoken to. Question it, Bantam. Bantam—And I will, though it give me the pip. (Advancing.) What art thou that favor to es) usurpest this time of night together with that fair and spotless form to which my former father did sometime march? By thy resemblance to old King Minorca, I charge thee speak and tell thy wrongs. Guost—Cock-a-doo- dle-doo, BanTaM—Thou hast spoken, Alas, poor ghost! Guost—Pity me not, but lend thy serious hearing to what I shall unfold. Bantam—Crow out! I am bound to hear. Guost—I am thy father's spirit, doomed for a certain time to walk the night; but even sewn down tight upona hat, Icana tale unfold that would cause old Shanghai, who betrayed me to that milliner, to fall off his perch withenvy. THE YARNS OF CAPTAIN FIBB. 1, “I've had some purty strange adventures, but nothin’ ever could touch this one. Oncet when I wuz on shore leave in Italy I climbed to the top of Mount Vesuvius. I wuz standin on the edge of the crater lookin down inter the ter'ble gulf when —— 2, —— all of a suddent the earth crum- bles beneath me, and I falls inter the gapin’ hole — 4. —— a bottomless pit. It wuz chuck fall of all sorts of critters swimmin’ around in the boilin’ water. I hit several when I struck, but I kept right on a-goin” —— 5, —— So I keeps on a-droppin' through the hot water and steam till I waz scalded. Next thing I pops through about five miles of cool water, then suddenly I shoots out inter fresh air and daylight ! ENGLISH AS IT IS RURALIZED. “" Hello, uncle; how are you ?"* * Ob, fair to middlin’.” “ How ‘s the wife? “ She 's tollable.. “ Frank is well. I suppose ?”” “Yes; he 's s0-s0."” 3. —— Down I shoots till I comes to the fu:t stratum, which wuz inhabited by all kinds of-strange subterranean animals and queer beasts. But I whirled right past them, inter — 6, —— I seems to shoot up in the air about a mile; then fust thing I knows I lands on the deck of a ship, there before me is Captain Mizzen, of the good ship ‘ Pipedream !’ Blame me if I didn’t fall right through the earth and come out on the other side !"" comicbooks.com