CALL-BOY JACK.

Northland Age, Volume 2, Issue 46, 19 June 1906, Page 8

CALL-BOY JACK.

ioil may think mo just a nipper ot the ordinary kind. Tint I’ \o got the law liehind mo in the theatre, dp you mind ; ( m n sort of st&ge-policcman, though f don't look over strong, l<or the people I go after they have got to ' come along." iou should see mo in the drama that’s entitled "Done to Death"— Why, the way I call them murderers would stop your very breath ; And I'm not along of them alone, wo w apparitions, hosts— Cluite a death's-'oad phantom army And on they come a-creepin’, craw-ly-wawly, in the night, The villing is a sleep in’, and he When he wakes to see thorn phantoms, ’orrid ’orriil, on his track, But the one as introduces them is

There’s a murder in a farmyard, what’s a dreary-looking scene. And at first I calls the victim, which Then t chortles up the staircase for And I next collects n crowd to find Now. of course, they want the hero, When they says ho’s done that murder (while the heroine's in tears,) But th * villing sends him under, though his innocence he boasts, As I signals tor the thunder. But my pride is in the ghosts.

There’s a shipwreck in the background as is engineered by me. For I has to call the parties that When I’ve got the “waves" in order, won’t pretend to mention all Such as soldiers at “attention," and But we finishes the drama with the

And although I likes to call him, still my ’art is in each ghost.