THE EARLY VILLAGE COOK. “ Oncb upon a time,” the late Junius Brutus Booth was engaged to play Rickard 111. at the old Bowery Theatre, but managed to smuggle asuspicious-looking bottle into bis dressing-room and was overcome by real sleep in the scene where be should have feigned it only, as Richard haunted in his tent by the ghosts of his victims. Much to the amusement of the audience, Gloucester actually snored through the scene, until it was resolved by the management to send Catesby on “ before his time.” Enter Catesby, saying : “ My lord, ’tis I, the early village cock.” Richard opened an eye. “ My lord, ’tis I, the early village cock 1” repeated the astonished Catesby. Richard arose to a sitting posture, and, fixing his sleepy eyes upon the “ village cock,” drawled out: “ Then why the deuce don’t you crow,”
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Cromwell Argus, Volume XXVII, Issue 1373, 20 August 1895, Page 7
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