Artemus Ward (Charles Farrar Browne) : a biography and bibliography . dollars for the hall,and Judge Stidger was to write you up well in hispaper. Write me up? I should think he did! He told thenoble inhabitants that I was coming with a wholemenagerie of snakes and animals, and a half a dozenwagon-loads of wax figures. When I got into the townand found what the people had been led to expect, Ileft by the next stage. Do you think I would havestopped? Why, I should have been steamboated firstand lynched afterward. And the burned-out city, Nevada—did that pay? Heres the money-takers return. Its j
Artemus Ward (Charles Farrar Browne) : a biography and bibliography . dollars for the hall,and Judge Stidger was to write you up well in hispaper. Write me up? I should think he did! He told thenoble inhabitants that I was coming with a wholemenagerie of snakes and animals, and a half a dozenwagon-loads of wax figures. When I got into the townand found what the people had been led to expect, Ileft by the next stage. Do you think I would havestopped? Why, I should have been steamboated firstand lynched afterward. And the burned-out city, Nevada—did that pay? Heres the money-takers return. Its just halfwhat I received. The people opened the windows andsat on the sills, while others stood in rows around thechurch. When I came out they all waited to see me,and paid up their dollars for standing-room. I likechurches to lecture in, but if you take another one forme, set some footlights to the pulpit. At Jackson there was trouble in leasing the friendly sheriff offered the use of a brand-new your comic man make his speech here, he said, [140]. ARTEMUS WARD THE LECTURER CALIFORNIA, NEVADA, AND UTAH genially. You can have the place for nothing. Hecan stand up on a table in the middle, well place formsfor the people, and theres the place for your boxes. The boxes were cells designed to accommodatemurderers, none of whom had yet arrived! Finally, California was covered, and after a briefreturn to San Francisco a direct departure was takenfor Nevada. Hingston, as usual, went ahead. Thefirst show in the silver territory was given to a roughcrowd in Carson, which filled the Johnny MooreTheater. This was a rude playhouse with saloon andgambling-house attachment. Hingston credits itsownership to one Doc Schermerhorn, an exile fromBaltimore. This is an error. Schermerhorn was alocal celebrity who made the theater and its annex hislounging-place. His real name was Charles S. Lightleand he enjoyed a local reputation as a wit. The au-dience was unappreciative. Artemus
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