Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 557
he and one of his friends gave dra-matic readings to their country neighbors.Imagine a big barn and all its windows crowdedwith sun-browned faces. A sheet is the curtain;a dinner-bell announces the scene. Encouragedby success, the boys decided to give an entertain-ment in the Belair court-house.… … EDWIN BOOTH AS RICHARD III But that evening when the actors rode in totheir star performance, they saw, to their amuseddisappointment, that Joe had posted every billupside down! Such an absurd advertisement,however, did not spoil the gravity of the audience.The people came in, as Asia said, as if…
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