| Show A STRATAGEM I 1 your story about aboul calling for a doctor in the circus said bald ti retired nan man reminds me of the is nay ay we broke up a a nuisance in a good cowl sized pennsyl anle anla town I 1 os on the road with a farce comedy company and we put lit two weeks at the tonn ton in question there being a UK big military encampment and a county fair air to boot we drew good houses all through the en t anti and were booked for an erly early ly return I 1 dont think we had been there more than one night before the doctor nuisance began there would coine came it a hurried messenger from the box bos to the stase stage manager is ith I 1 th a request eliat lie ask it if dr 11 bolus olus or A w hat eer his name happened to be wua was in the house slid and if lie hi was waa to send him tu alie i box office at once conw of 0 course the stage manager try ery nel atell 1 defuse Ie fuse af and gerneral attention was waa directed to the iho medical man iman much to his satisfaction we soon found out that tho doctors who were so much iri ili demand were very linail medical fry and there a doubt that t they cy had themselves called for in I 1 n order or er tu to secure r ure tile the consequent c ty well wo we stood food g it II for a few nigh nights ts anti ami ill then an idea occurred to me inc I 1 took t 00 it a walk wal up lip tile the min maill street until 1 ca came a to it a certain hanging over it stairway I 1 went up C P to tho thio office indicated and had I a alief bi let conversation with its inmate calling it by handing hint him reserved seat tickets that evening immediately after tile airet act and beffie any mes messenger stager from the box office had a 0 chance to arrive I 1 stepped out in front of 0 ill the e curtain and held ill UD my iny hand then lit in my lily gravest toner tone I 1 asked J Is a dr ChIzz lold lir in tile house use 11 nin it a very tall colored man jib a bushy busby white head anil and hugo huge sliver mounted spectacles arose in this the audience anti and said I 1 la Is sail tho the audience tittered littered but I 1 kept my gravity you are wanted at the ui box office at al once doctor in it a case which 1 requires your immediate professional attention As the aged aed darky ducked to me a and d hobbled baled front froni the team loom tile audle audience brolo broke into a wild roar you will understand the he cause of their merriment when I 1 add that old nian man wad waa a earn corn doctor and probably tho the best known eccentric character in town well there mere no mole moie doctors B called for front from that stage during our engagement daan dealer |
