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"And little Malta, too! Come and kiss your Bluffy!" Both hail Mr. George with acclamations as an old friend and after some kissing and romping plant their stools beside him. "And how's young Woolwich?" says Mr. George. "Ah! There now!" cries Mrs. "Would you believe it? Got an engagement at the theayter, with his father, to play the fife in a military piece." "Well done, my godson!" cries Mr.
They spent the rest o' the day together, and when evening came Charlie went off to the Cooks'. Emma 'ad arf expected they was going to a theayter that night, but Charlie said he wasn't feeling the thing, and he sat there so quiet and miserable they didn't know wot to make of 'im. "'Ave you got any trouble on your mind, Charlie," ses Mrs. Cook, "or is it the tooth-ache?"
She threw her arms about his rascally neck, and laid her head upon his hulking shoulder, regardless of the hat she wrecked, and cried in ecstasy: "I'll do it, deer! I'll do it, Walty! But why should there be any shootin', lovey? At 'Ome I never could abear to see them theayter plays what 'ad guns an' firin' in 'em; it made me 'art beat so crooil bad."
This was too much. "My word must satisfy you," said Algernon, rising. "So it shall. So it do," returned Sedgett, rising with him. "Will you give it in writing?" "I won't." "That's blunt. Will you come and have a look at a sparring-match in yond' brown booth, sir?" "I am going back to London." "London and the theayter that's the fun, now, ain't it!" Sedgett laughed.
"The sea beats the theayter and the church all to smitherines, Amarilly!" he declared jubilantly. "I kin go to work now." "No!" said Amarilly resolutely. "You air goin' to loaf through this hot weather until church and school open." The family fund once more had a modest start. Mrs.
Well run along now what's your name?" "Lorna Sackville." "Lorny." He burst into a loud guffaw. "Lord, what a name! Sounds like a theayter. Seven sharp, Lorny. So long." Susan nodded with laughing eyes, thanked him and departed. She glanced up the street, saw Etta standing in the door of the restaurant.
Handy had the country band well in hand. He made them play down the main street and parade up to the tent. Then he got them inside and astonished his auditors with such a liberal manifestation of music that those present could not well decide whether they had come to listen to a concert or have an opportunity to see the real "theayter" actors.
"Thar's a friend of mine what brakes, and he wants the surplus to wear to a maskyrade. I told him he could go as a preacher. He's asavin' to git merried, so he don't want to give much." "He shell hev it fer a quarter," said Amarilly, friend to all lovers, "and I'll lend him a mask. I hev one the property man at the theayter give me." "I wonder," meditated Gus, "where the surplus will land next?"
To such a feller, Abe, when it comes to taking a young lady on theayter Saturday night, business is nix, even when Saturday is a big night in Mount Vernon." Abe nodded. "Furthermore, Abe," Morris continued, "if we go on selling B. Gurin, Abe, sooner or later he would bust up on us, understand me, and we are not only out a customer but the least he sticks us is a couple hundred dollars.
I don't say I ain't been to a theayter once or twice in my life, but I always come away with the idea that anybody could act if they liked to try. It's a kid's game, a silly kid's game, dressing up and pretending to be somebody else." He cut off a piece of tobacco and, stowing it in his left cheek, sat chewing, with his lack-lustre eyes fixed on the wharves across the river.
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