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Show A YOUTHFUL THESPIAN. PAJLNFCX tLEiL'LTS OF HAVING A FIT H EH WHO WILL NOT APPhEClATE BHAKKbf A.hE. A few days ugo young Gur'ey, whose tether livc-d on Crotiaa stieel, oriianized a theatrical cuiapany and purcbaswl tbe dime novel play of "ILimlet." Tne company consisted of three boys and a hoatler, and Mr. Hurley's hired girl was to bo the nost if the troupe could guiiranie her fifty cents per ni'nt. Youny Gurley istuldcnly blooni(l out as i proiVbaiunul, Aiidjwlieu hi mother asked him tu firing in some wikhI, he replied : "Though I am penniless thou canist not degrade me !" "Von trot out alter that wood or I'll have your father trounce you 1" she exclaimed. "The try rant who lays hia hand upon me shall die !" replied the boy, but ho eot the wood. He waa out on the step when a man came along and ticked him where Laiayette utreet was, "jJoouitd lor a certain time to roam the earth!" replied Gurley, in a hoarse voice, and holding bis right arm out straight. "I say you! Wuere is Lafayette street?" called the man. "Ah! Could the dead but speak ah !" continued Gurley. The man drove him into tho house, and his mot-ier sent him to the grocery alter potatoes. "I go, moat noble duchess," he said as he took up the basket, "but my aood sword shall someday avenge these insults !" He knew that the grocer favored theatricals, and when he got there be said: t "Art thou provided with a store of; that vegetable known as the 'later, most excellent duke?" "What in thunder do you want?" growled the grocer as he cleaned tho cheese knife on a piece of paper. "Thy plehian mind is dull of comprehension!" com-prehension!" answered Gurley. "Don't try to get oft any of your nonsense on me, or I'll crack your empty pate in a minute !" roared the grocer, ana "Hamlet" had to come down from his high horse and ask lor a peck of potatoes. "What made you so long?" asked his mother aa he returned. "Thy grave shall be dug in tho cypress cy-press glade!" he haughtily answered. answer-ed. When his father cauiq home at noon Mrs. Gurley told him that alio believed the boy was going crazy, and related whi.t had occumd. "I see what ails hnn," mused the father; "this explains why ho hangs around Johnson's bam so much. '1 At the dinner table young Gurley spoke of his father as the "illus-trous "illus-trous count" and when his mother asked htm if he would have gome tiutter gravy ne answeru: "The appetite of a warrior cannot be satisfied with such nonsense." When tho meal was over the father went out to his favorite shade tree, and cut a sprout.aud the boy was asked to step out into the woodshed and see if the penstock was frozen np. He found the old man there, and lie said: "Why, most noble lord, I had supposed thee far away I" "I'm not so far away but what I'm goin' to make you skip 1" growled the father. "I'll teach you to fool around ten cent tragedies! Come up here 1" For about five minutes tbe woodshed wood-shed was full of dancing feet, flying j arms and moving bodies, and then i the old man took a rest and in-! in-! quired: ! "There, your highness, dost want any more?" "On ! no, dad not u darned bit !" wailed the young " manager," and while the father started for down town he went in and sorrowfully informed in-formed the hired girl that he must cancel her engagement until the. fall season. Detroit Free Press. |