AN ENTHUSIASTIC ACTOR.

Dunstan Times, Issue 776, 2 March 1877, Page 4

AN ENTHUSIASTIC ACTOR.

One night Tymmelon the actor was playing in the Committee as Obadiah and Jack Johnstone as Teagoe, who lias to ply Obadiahfrom a black bottle. Such extraordinary and unusual grimaces did Mnn'den make as ho took down his draughts that not only did the audience break-into convulsions of laughter, but Johnstone himeslf grew almost hysterical. The moment however, that Mumlen was borne from the stage and the drop fell, he leaped up and screamed for a stomach pump. •‘l’m a dead man,” he shouted—“ I’m a dead man,” he shouted—“ I’m poi .soned! Where’s the villain that filled that bottle 1 Ugh, oh ! Hang it, it is lamp oil, sir, every drop of it 1” Johnstone had the empty bottle in hishand. He smelt. It was too true. The property man in baste had mistaken the lunip-oi l for sherry-ami water. “But why in the name of all that is holy,” said Johnstone, “ why, Joe, did you allow me to pour the whole of that filthy stuff down your throat when a look ora word would have stopped me'?” Munden’s reply was worthy of an enthusiastic actor, “Jack,” he gasped out, “mv dear hoy, so I should, hut there was i nch a glorious roar I had no heart to spoil the scene, though I thought f should have died every time you p air' d a fresh gulp.” The Wanganui Herald savs :—A. fern- days ago a settler riding ovei his run on Xo. 3 bine came across a hawk’s nest, situated in a small swamp. It! contained two-full grown young hawks. On examining the nest ho found therein the remains of 11 pheasants, 5 rats, 2 quail, and 1 woodhen.