. St. Nicholas [serial]. Laugh and jest the whole day long ! Ready smiles break out in answer On each satin, dusky cheek;Hands are clapping, feet are dancing, Dimples playing hide-and-seek. Laughing hear the feathered people,Laughs the sun as he looks down, And, the sweet contagion spreading,Laughter rings through all thetown. v-i %*£!.< , • TO ~Sa- % T^-.: . •:..??? ? w ~_=K fSmSg&. By Rev. Charles M. Sheldon. {Author ofIn His Steps.) The stage curtain had gone up, and theimpatient audience, packed closely into thelittle theater of San Benito, was growing clam-orous. It had come to be
. St. Nicholas [serial]. Laugh and jest the whole day long ! Ready smiles break out in answer On each satin, dusky cheek;Hands are clapping, feet are dancing, Dimples playing hide-and-seek. Laughing hear the feathered people,Laughs the sun as he looks down, And, the sweet contagion spreading,Laughter rings through all thetown. v-i %*£!.< , • TO ~Sa- % T^-.: . •:..??? ? w ~_=K fSmSg&. By Rev. Charles M. Sheldon. {Author ofIn His Steps.) The stage curtain had gone up, and theimpatient audience, packed closely into thelittle theater of San Benito, was growing clam-orous. It had come to be amused by the greatprestidigitator, M. Truchette, and it had waitednow full ten minutes and no appearance of thegreat magician. An Italian audience is fre-quently a restless one. This one had lost pa-tience. There on the stage was the apparatusof the master—the famous table, the mysteriouscurtain, and various devices for astonishingthe unlearned. But monsieur himself did notmake his appearance, and the people were be-ginning to grow abusive of the theater-man-ager, M. Truchette, his assistants, and even theinnocent little orchestra tooting and scrapingaway to fill up the time, and growing nervousat the murmurs of discontent on every side. But if the audience could have gone behindthe scenes it would have been satisfied withthe sight of a very effective little a faded
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