The American literary reciter; readings, delcamations and plays, original compositions and choice selections of the best literature .. . atever you ask we will do for you. [Repeat.] Fox (with contempt.)What! let you out, now that Ive got you in;Why, my liille dears, that would be a sin?If you had been to your mother true,Youd have shunned the trap I laid for now you are here, please dont blame me,Its all your own fault, as you can geese are silly, and the fox is you think of that when I passed you by?And you listened to me when I spoke to you,Is that what your mother
The American literary reciter; readings, delcamations and plays, original compositions and choice selections of the best literature .. . atever you ask we will do for you. [Repeat.] Fox (with contempt.)What! let you out, now that Ive got you in;Why, my liille dears, that would be a sin?If you had been to your mother true,Youd have shunned the trap I laid for now you are here, please dont blame me,Its all your own fault, as you can geese are silly, and the fox is you think of that when I passed you by?And you listened to me when I spoke to you,Is that what your mother advised you to do?Oh, no! my dears, you may cackle and squeal,But youre here to make me a luscious sense is but folly when it comes too late! 220 MODERN DIALOGUES AND PLAYS. And a goose must expect but a gooses fate!So, to-night you may sup on regret and tears,To-morrow (smacks his lips)—good night, pleasant dreams, my pretty dears! [Aside.]I might have said more, but whats the use,Of talking good sense to a silly young goose;Young geese will be silly, and the fox is sly,Remember that, kind friends, good-bye! good-bye!. Alarm This department includes selections that afford the reader opportunities for the full andvaried display of dramatic and oratorical powers. %0& f2r* *£& BEN HURS CHARIOT RACE. THE trumpet sounded short and starters, one for each chariot,leaped down, ready to give assistance ifany of the fours proved the trumpet blew, and simultane-ously the gate-keepers threw the stallsopen. Forth from each stall, like missilesin a volley from so many great guns,rushed the six contesting fours—the Cor-inthians, Messalas, the Athenians, theByzantines, the Sidonians, and Ben-Hurs—and the vast assemblage rose and,leaping upon the benches, filled the circuswith yells and screams. The competitors were under view fromnearly every part of the circus, yet the racewas not begun; they had first to make suc-cessfully the chalked line, stre
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