DEVOURING AFFRONTS.
The most miserable of lives, probably, is that of the *barn-stormer,* or comedian who goes abont with others in a company, performing in small towns and villages. Not infrequently these people enconnter audiences which express deserved contempt for them in ways which are not kind. * I suppose,* said a friend of one of these performers, at the close of one of his expeditions, * that you got pretty much everything thrown at you !’ * Oh, yes; apples, principally. And now and then turnips, and frequently potatoes.* * And occasionally cabbages, I suppose 1* * Unfortunately we were very seldom hit by a cabbage.* * Unfortunately ? What do you mee nby that ?’ * Why, bless your soul, it was the best luck we had when people threw those things at us. We had so little to eat that we were thoroughly glad to swallow their insults I*
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XIX, Issue X, 28 August 1897, Page 316
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142DEVOURING AFFRONTS. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XIX, Issue X, 28 August 1897, Page 316
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