| Show EDMUND KEAN while playing at exeter in in england 0 and at the height of his popularity kean was invited to dine with some gentlemen I 1 at one of the principal al h hotels 0 teis he ile drove there 1 in n his carriage pring print the e dinner was announced the table sumptuously decorated and the landlord I 1 0 rd all bows and submission hoped that the gentlemen and their distinguished visitor found every everything tIling to their sails salis satisfaction faction kean stared eared at him for some moments and then said your name ia is it is mr kean I 1 have had bad th the e honor of meeting vou you you vou before 51 13 you yott kept some ago aeo ago a small tavern in the outskirts of this towa town 1 jl I did mr air kean rean fortune hag has been apen kind to both of us since then I 1 recollect you air sir bir when you belonged to our theatre berel berei and 1 I sir said baid kean jumping jumper g recollect I 1 youl you many years afo ago ajo I 1 came cams ino info your our paltry tavern after a I 1 lonc lone journey v with ith my iny suffering wl wife e and a sick on mild alid child all of us wet to the skin I 1 med wed asked you for a lal iri morsel orsel of refreshment you I 1 answered me as is if I 1 were a dog and ani refused to trust it out of yourhanas your hands until you ou had received the trifle aich which was its value 1 I left my may ray family by bv your inhospitable fireside while 1 sought bought for lod iod lodgings ings inas on my return 3 you yon on ordered me like a brute to take my wife and brat from your house 2 and abused me for not spending in drink the money I 1 had not for food fortune as you sav say has done something 1 for us both since then but you are still the same I 1 see the same cringing crin I 1 ginZ gins gr grasping aspin grinding greedy money mone y hnuter hi friter I 1 sir am still the same I 1 am now in my zenith iwas I 1 was then at its nadir but I 1 agthe am the same man the same kean whom you ordered from your doors and I 1 have now the same hatred to oppression that I 1 had then and were it my last meal pd id not eat no nor r drink in a house belonging C to so heartless a scoundrel gentlemen 12 said he be turning to his friends 1 I beg pardon for this outbreak but were I 1 to dine dirre under the roof of this timeserving time serving 0 gold loving brute the first mouthful I 1 am surer sure would choke me kean kept his wordani wor word dand and the party arty adjourned to another hotel knickerboc knickerbocker GP g mark says a sensible writer the tho laboring man who breakfasts at six and then walks perhaps two or three miles to his work lie he is lii full fuli of at heith health and a stranger to doctors mark on n the other hand your clerk who takes toast at eight and gets down to the ibe store at nine or half past lle lie is a pale eue minate creature full of sarsaparilla and patent worm medicine and pills and things what a pity it is that this class of people do not lay down the abe yardstick and the scissors and take takee up the scythe or the flail for a year or two by remaining in their present occupation they only help to fill up cemeteries and about as miserable use of humanity as you can name ex |
