Show itIN IN IN NEWGATE PRISON PRISON a tb Tire i Prison on Was Valla a NoIsome FItce ee In Q n i Elizabeths Elizabeth's Day Dar I In St St. Nicholas there is is' is an interest- interest i Master Skylark a narra narra- tivo ivo of Shakespeare's time written by Jo John John n Bennett One of the leading characters characters char char- Gaston Carew a ruffling milling player bee bas been een put in Newgate for killing a cOI companion panion ut cards The Tho hero bero Nick Atwood the Skylark visits him there It was a foul dark place and full of evil smells Drops of water stood on the cold stone walls walle and a 1 green mold crept along the floor The air was heavy boavy and dank dauk and it began to bo be for barn bard for Nick to breathe Up Up with thee It said the turnkey gruffly unlocking the door to the stairs The common room above was packed with miserable wretches The strongest kept the window ledges near light and air by sheer main force foice and were dicing on the dirty sill The turnkey pushed and banged his way through them Nick clinging desperately ly to his bis jerkin In the cell at the end cud of the corridor there was a n Spanish renegade who railed railed railed rail rail- ed at the light when the door was opened opened opened open open- ed and railed at the darkness when it closed Cesare el elMoro Moro Aloro Cesare Cesaro e el Mora Moro Moro Mo- Mo ro ra he was saying over oer and over again to h self as if he feared he be might forget forget forget for for- get his own name namo C Carew rew was in the tho middle cell ironed hand and mid foot He Ha had torn his sleeves and tucked the tho lace lac under the tho rough edges of the tire metal meta to keep Leep them from chafing the skin He Ho sat on a pile of dirty straw with his Iris face in his folded arms arm upon neon his bis knees By his bis side were a broken biscuit and an empty stone jug He bad ad his fingers in his hin e ears rs tR to shut shutout out the tolling of the knell Luell for tho the men who ho had bad gene to L li J. J hanged The turnkey shook the b bars rs Here wake wak Lo to said Crew Carew looked His Hi eyes were swollen Q d I jig f ce 1 tIt a l two days' days beard Ho had slept in his clothes and aud they were full of cf broken straw stray and md creases But his face lit up when be he saw sav saw the toy boy and und he lie came to the praying w with th an m lager eager ex- ex And thou then l hast bast ast tn truly y come cometo to the man dost hate hat so bitterly but will not irate ate any more Come Game Nick thou will not hate mo any more Twill iII not bo worth thy while whilo Nick The Tho night is com Lg fast Why sir said Nick it is not Dot so dark outside outside lis Mis scarcely noon and thou wilt vilt soon bo out Out Ay on Tyburn hill bill said t the e master player playe quietly Ive 1 spent my whole life fer a bit of hempen cord coid Ive I've taken my last cue Last night at 12 o'clock I heard the bellman under the prison calls vails call my name with those of the already condemned The play is nearly out Nick and the people will bo going home It has been a wild play Nick and ill played It |