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Show riiiVYEl.aAXY PARTS. ,,v - - ,-- -. lie was an ancient actor man who one day said to me. "Pray-listen, "youth," I lIyed, with Booth, ,ln eighteen slxty-lhrop. -t I alsoplftyqd with Forrestand with Fotchor" 1 was fine, . And supported Edwin Adams Tn eighteen eigh-teen sixty-nine. 1 . "V- 'if cr ' "I was all tho lage upon the stage performing many fea.ts, And when I b6wed before" the crowd, I knocked them tjf f lhefr seats.' - "I've p.layed wiyi HiphJird Mansfield, andeyqry otl)o,r.stoiv -p . . , And played a lot of lengthy parts 9h11e standing at tho bar. I've boasted ofTnyrecorll-'ffom '-Frisco backtpIaine, ,. ,, f. Until JtJseems a wonder .tha.t my wico could stand the strain. "I've led aBj)man mtihy-apd 'Jed a Grecian mob, And in tho days of Sha kpsjjea-re's plflys wag always on theob. " l'e fflayod Jlacbethantl"Ti6hard too, andnwor will 'forget" "' The -season. I .played Hamlet behind a wire net. T . "In 'on Njghts in a Bar Room,' Joo Morgan's 'part I've done, With its 'Father, dearJather, como. 'home with me now, - - i The-clook In the steeple strikes one.' I supported old Joe Bmmottjin -his Gorman play ofJFiytz' -But I started in tho :business "with tho " "bost"' 6fth6"LogIts. " .-"....-- tv - -. " 7 "Ilayo played tlj.o leading cities and JjoUo'v nit it's noboast, - -I've plaed inevorp tHeatre "to bo ""found from const to Ooast. -Played -loads with ChaJ-lotte Cushjrian, played Jto tUo kUgJipd auoen, 1 . Phayejrtha hind legs of the Heifer in tho Rice 'Evangeline.' "Played .tlnplp .Toni nnd Caesar and .made the gajjery .rh,ig, - , . And bayk in eighty-three I plaved ''The Silver King." " - Pla'yDdin-The-LIghts o' London,' and" In 'Romany Rye,'? -, f And played -in.'Hympty Dumpty' if . I tlUJn't," hope todie. , - . "But now -I'm a has-been, I tell you "" this because I'd ,rathor be a has-been than a ono that novor-was'. Ambition's dead within me, as cold and hard as ice. - And I'd-like a liUIe-ip to'drink If you can raise the price. ' ... |