THE HEN AT THE HEND.
The following dialogue took place between a theatre manager and his stage doorkeeper, during an engagement of Mr Sothern. The comedian's name had been advertised by "sandwich" boards. Of the name each board bore on it but a single letter, thus spelling it out in fulL Inspecting each board in it* order,
"Where's the Hen?" asked the manager, with a suspicious glance, as though the door keeper had surreptitiously appropriated it for his own family. "Whaur's the what?" replied the mystified Scotch doorkeeper, "The Hen!" Bhouted the excitad manager.
" I hae na Been the animal, sir." " Ugh," growled the infuriated lessee between his teeth, " yer fool, I don't mean the 'en as lays the heggs, but the Hen at the Hend."
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Otago Witness, Issue 1506, 25 September 1880, Page 27
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126THE HEN AT THE HEND. Otago Witness, Issue 1506, 25 September 1880, Page 27
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