THEEE PENNILESS ACTORS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XL, Issue 9087, 20 May 1891, Page 4

THEEE PENNILESS ACTORS.

ThreS yonn^'men, setting ottfVon aj journey to a distant part of the cotfritry) and! without a permy N lin=their pockets to defray! their expenses, determined, after holding, counsel together, to assume the character/ of.strolling actors, and pa arriving,at: their' first halting-plaice solicited; and obiained, permissidii from the local' authorities, ', to | announce the performance of a piece never before represented, and entitled " The Penniless i 'Travellers.:! .. There being no,iheatre in the, ' village^theyMecidea on erecting a"tempprary • * stage in'itjstrge barn, the hireof J which "was | to be paid out of the receipts ; and as soon ; as their preparations were completed, and , two itinerant musicians engaged by way of orchestra, sent an individualwith a drum to summon the ; inhabitants, most of whom, attracted by the novelty, readily handed over their threepence each' to one, of; the confederates posted at the entrance to the bafhl When all' 'were -assembled, and remained patiently awaiting, the commencement, the trio quietly ' decamped with then booty after locking the door and carrying away the key with them, exulting in the success of their stratagem. About a mile from the village they met a peasant'on his way thither, and besought him as a favour to take back jthe key, and Tuhldok the door o : toie?barn t they had forgotten, to leave o"pen, adding that in it there were a number of calves half starved -with hunger, not having eaten anything all day. „The peasapt wilVlir'gly consented,' ! but J on his arrival was somewhat surprised to hear sounds proceeding from the interior of the bairn more resembling'human. voices than the bleating of tbe.anirnals^ he 'expected to find . there. However,' he lost no time* in unlocking the door, and could not restrain his merriment when heibeheld some .four score individuals rushing 1 out one after another, evidently in a state of extraordinary exasperation. '» This [ unwonted spectacle so amused him that he > ViUrtlly rsttcsd "^iti daughter* seeing which. the entire multitude, naturally taking him for an accomplice of the three adventurers, fell upon him, and belaboured him soundly. A few weeks later, a company of real Thespians, happening to pass, through the village, and being in sore want ot funds, proposed, as their ill-luck would have it, to give the inhabitants a taste of their quality.; whereupon the latter,. imagining themselves likely to be duped a second' time, so rudely maltreated them that they hadgreat dim* culty in escaping with their lives;- : Neither trickery nor competition bai beta able to affect the reputation of Wolfe's.Schnapps. \ HOLLaWAVs OINtMENT AND PILLB. -— who have given these remedies a fair ■trial freely, admit that they inherently 'possess every property , suitable for healing and removingrriifl'pJtionß,,,alceraHonfl, -piles, abacesseu,BoreB M §ad , legs, gathered breasts, and all dißordejs .of th» glandular system. When curefuily rubbed in the Ointment relaxes the swollen musoles, diminishes inflammation, assuages pain, and even alleviates dangerous maladies which: may have lasted for months, or even for years. Holloway's excellent preparations^ are eS eotive.singly^resistJess in combination, .and ; have oeeh reoommended by/grattftil patients' to be resorted to bb altjrdtivea when 'all other raeans of regarding health have failed. Tbelf action is temperate, not violent or redacfag, . . ~ } . , . A ■ Tbpy not only ;lmifate Wolfed Sohn&ppß but copy »d?9r(iwmwt«,