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Soon afterward he undertook the part of one of the Venetian comrades in Hugo's "Lucretia Borgia," and was to have said in his turn "Madame, I am Petruchio Pandolfo;" instead of which he exclaimed: "Madame, I am Pondolfio Pet , Pedolfio Pat , Pantuchio Ped ; damn it? what am I?" The audience roared, and Booth, though full of chagrin, was compelled to laugh with them.
I ran to the top of the staircase to listen, but could only hear the voice of the turnkey, alternately in a high tone, answering to some person without, and in a whisper, addressed to the person who had guided me hither "She's coming she's coming," aloud; then in a low key, "O hon-a-ri! O hon-a-ri! what'll she do now? Gang up ta stair, and hide yourself ahint ta Sassenach shentleman's ped.
But sure enough we must all of us put up wid growin' good for nothin' sometime, unless we happint to ha' never been worth anythin' to begin wid. And he wished he had a penny ped him for every one of that sort he'd met in the coorse of his life." This cynical disquisition was not very enlightening. However next week when Dan slipped over again for his second sixpenn'orth, Mr.
Dot medticine is Doctor Smith's favorite prescription for dot disease. Und mit all dot you kicks. Vot more do you want? 'Vell, I say, 'I gan no more dake dot medticine. It makes me awful seek. 'Now, Hans, dondt be so unreasonable. You pelongs to dot ped, und whoefer goes into dot ped dakes dot medticine. Dondt you see? 'But I dells you dot I gan no more dake dot medticine. It vill kill me.
"Would not pay it; they consequently took proceedings you resisted the execution of the law, and then you had to run for it." "Well, not exactly, sir." "How was it, then?" "Why, sir, we paid the tithes; an' whin this was discovered, I, at any rate, had to run for it. The people, your honor, found out that it was I that ped them, an' I was glad, of coorse, to fly for my life.
"Fwhy it isn't whor sale, my lady," replied Phil, evading the former question; "the masther here, Gad bless him an' spare him to you, ma'am! thrath, an' it's his four quarthers that knew how to pick out a wife, any how, whor beauty an' all hanerable whormations o' grandheur so he did; an' well he desarves you, my lady: faix, it's a fine houseful o' thim you'll have, plase Gad an' fwhy not? whin it's all in the coorse o' Providence, bein' both so handsome: he gev me a pound note whor her my ladyship, an' his own plisure aftherwards; an' I'm now waitin' to be ped."
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