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Good-natured, poverty-stricken barnstormers they doubtless were, living from-hand-to-mouth, and quite willing to go through the whole gamut of tragedy, from Shakespeare to Dryden, for the sake of a good supper. They are so far from falling into these false gallantries, that the stage is here in his original situation of a cart. Alexander the Great was acted by a fellow in a paper cravat.
'I give a few lessons, he said, 'and work for a dealer; and by that means we just contrive to live. We dine every day, and I have a decent coat, though you don't happen to find me in it. I can only afford to wear it when I go to my pupils. It is from-hand-to-mouth work; and if any illness should strike me down, the wife and little ones must starve." "Poor fellow! poor fellow!
He had no regular income and the irregularly appearing little checks only provided a from-hand-to-mouth sort of living for the three. Yet they had their dreams. Landlords might turn them out of house and home but they were powerless to deprive them of their dreams.
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