. Small boys in big boots : a story for children of all ages . atres they have only imitation scenery—paintedstuff! Now Footlights is going to have the real thing. We wanttrees to surround the drill-ground of the State Camp. In low-downplaces of amusement they would paint em on canvas. We wentout, cut all the trees we needed, and now Footlights is choppingthem to fit, and nailing them upon the stage. Weve stole a realsentry-box and carted it down in Sam Corbins wagon, and its tobe the guard-house and general-headquarters. Footlights is arealist of the most advanced type. Hes going to have real
. Small boys in big boots : a story for children of all ages . atres they have only imitation scenery—paintedstuff! Now Footlights is going to have the real thing. We wanttrees to surround the drill-ground of the State Camp. In low-downplaces of amusement they would paint em on canvas. We wentout, cut all the trees we needed, and now Footlights is choppingthem to fit, and nailing them upon the stage. Weve stole a realsentry-box and carted it down in Sam Corbins wagon, and its tobe the guard-house and general-headquarters. Footlights is arealist of the most advanced type. Hes going to have real guns,real powder, real water, and real blood! Real blood ! How do they want real blood for a militiaplay ? Unheeding Myras unconscious sarcasm upon our State troops, 22 SMALL BOYS IX BIG BOOTS. Teddy goes on : Real blood, I tell you ! Our property-man, TimTones, is o>oine to make his nose bleed for the real blood when J O O Captain Wiggins kills Captain Jinks in a hand-to-hand sabre blood ! Oh, how lovely ! cries Myra. Then she mutters, And I. cant act in it ! Next, after a little choked-down sob, she asks,very, very anxiously : Will Footlights raise the price of admis-sion ? for the child longs more and more for the distractingdelights of the drama the farther she thinks herself from in and ask him. And youd better tell him youve / CAN DO IT! 23 given up the stage, if youre going to let your mother bully you outof it. Ive read of girls running away from home for much less ! remarks Teddy. Following him into what was once Rawsons barn and is now• The Peekskill Opera House, Myra finds herself in the presenceof the august Footlights. O *> This shining dramatic star is, perhaps, a year older thanTeddy, though hardship has taken from his face the freshness ofyouth, and the struggle for bread has given to his fifteen-year-oldcountenance an expression of precocious tact and perhaps Jemmy Higgins had been born of poor but honest parents,and h
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