"FRIENDS,- RESPECT THE DEAD."
In a. Liverpool theatre some time ago a melodrama was performed which -had. a peculiarly grim ending.for .no less than six of_the characters at the close of ; the fourth "act lay dead upon the stage. :Then ifc was the curtain's turn. In ought tohave. borne. do.wjij but it stuck badly; -Tiie dead becftme restless. They oeeped air each other, wondering -if they' would YsVer, be..re-
leased from their' awkward positions. ■ The audience; began to titter ; it tititered moire: then it; laughed outright. The" situation' had' become intolerable", when one of the "dead" rose, solemnly faced the audience, and, raising his hand beseechingly, said: "Friends, respect the dead !", Then he went back and lay with his friends, and the laughter broke out. afresh. There was nothing for it but- that the "dead" should solemnly walk off one after the other.
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Mataura Ensign, Issue 828, 13 December 1900, Page 3
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