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Updated: June 20, 2025
The sun had set, and now and then a heavy shower beat upon the shingled roof, but the western sky was clear and flushed with vivid crimson, toward which the prairie rolled away in varying tones of blue. Lights shone in the windows behind the veranda, and from one which stood open a hoarse voice drifted out, singing in a maudlin fashion snatches of an old music-hall ditty.
He drew down the corners of his mouth till he looked a cross between a music-hall comedian and a sick child. 'If you were looking for something in the root of the hedge, you wouldn't want to scour the road in a high-speed automobile. And still less would you want to get a bird's-eye view in an aeroplane. That parable about fits my case.
I wanted you to come to a music-hall with me to-night!" "I'm sorry," John replied stiffly, "I'd like to go with you, but I couldn't think of doing such a thing as you suggest to me!" "I wonder how long you'll feel like that, Mac?" Hinde laughed. "All my life, I hope!" "Well, have it your own way, then. But you're wasting your time!"
With unbounded cordiality he urged me to accompany him back again to Bruges, and I declined! He wrote to me afterwards to say that he had discovered the history of the house a man, a music-hall artist, answering to the description of the figure in the bed had once lived there with a performing ape, an orang-outang, and happening to annoy the animal one day, the latter had killed him.
Only the flash-light from France glimmered upon the poor dead beast, coming all the way to cheer him; only the green eye from beyond the Goodwins blinked upon his unheaving flanks. And from far ahead came back to his deaf ears with ever-diminishing intensity our noisy madrigal most music-hall, most melancholy his only dirge: Mary Jane was a farmer's daughter, Mary Jane did what she oughter.
It is like putting your hand in your pocket where you expect to find money and discovering that the gold is gone, and that only the copper is left." Recently there has been resurrected and regalvanized a story that was first told in Music-Hall by Theodore Parker on June Nineteenth, Eighteen Hundred Fifty-six.
'Of course, there is an amazing amount of drivel written over here, most of which, I think, would never get past the office-boy of an American publication. The English short story and the English music-hall are things to be avoided. 'Before I end, have you seen Gerard Van Derwater recently? I heard that he joined the diplomatic service at Washington after leaving college.
Instead of offering one of the typical woods chanteys, he conceived that before so grand an audience he should give something fancy. He therefore struck into a sentimental song of the cheap music-hall type. There were nine verses, and he drawled through them all, hanging whiningly on the nasal notes in the fashion of the untrained singer.
A beat of heavy feet drew nearer, and the three roysterers disappeared in the direction of a flaming music-hall, where the second "house" was probably commencing, while Winifred, who had stepped into the gutter to avoid the one with the cane, turned as a stalwart, blue-coated figure moved towards her. "Thank you, officer," she said; "they've gone."
A more affectionate family one rarely sees. Pa and Ma are a trifle stout, but still active. Baby, dear little fellow, is full of humour. Ladies do not care to go on the music-hall stage unless they can take their sister with them. I have seen a performance given by eleven sisters, all the same size and apparently all the same age. She must have been a wonderful woman the mother.
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