Mr. Eagle's USA

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Excerpt from Mr. Eagle's USA: As Seen in a Buggy Ride of 1400 Miles From Illinois to Boston When a youngish codger in a certain town of the prairies, no event of the year, to me, approached, in importance, the arrival of a theatrical "show, " the people "what acted out on the stage". Along after corn had been "shucked" and the nights were just stinging enough to make an overcoat feel cuddlesome, the "Lyceum Theatre Company, -at-the-Opera-House-for one-week" always burst into the village. Monday night found us boys on the front seats, the fathers and mothers in the centre of the hall, and the tough young men chewing tobacco at the rear. The first act of a pirated version of "The Ticket of Leave Man, " handed to us as "A Great Wrong Righted, " twanged our heartstrings and set all eyes on the bulge. As the curtain, with its greenish sky, a yellow house and a red row-boat, came down in a bunch after this opening act, a man in a "Prince Albert, " fastened at the lower button, pattered out in front and bespoke his soul: "Ladies and Gentlemen - We have came to your beautiful city to spend a week. We shall give you each and every evening a first class play acted by first-class artists. There will be an entire change of programme every evening. On Friday and Saturday night, we will present a valuable souverneer to each and every lady present. I am not at liberty to state just what it will be, but it will be worth the price of admission. And not forgetting, the children! We will give the little folks a handsome toy, besides giving you all a fine play. "To-morrow night, we shall give the standard comedy drama, 'Street Waifs of New York.' This play has strong comedy parts, as well as good tragedy for those who like something strong. I may say there is also a strong vein of scrio-comic and also, considerable pathos for those who like pathos, and there will be several neat 'specialties' for those who prefer 'specialties.'" And with a jerky bow, he disappeared. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.