WHAT THEY PAID FOR.
When Samuel Butler was playing in oiu'. of Shakespeare's .dramas, the occupants of the gallery were unusually demonstrative, not perhaps relishing the substitution of a production of the "immortal bird" for the congenial melodramatic horrors to which they were accustomed. The turbulence reiched a pitch vvhicli BuUer corild not'tolerate. Walking down to the footlights, he paid, " I see what you want," and proceeded to .chalk a line, down the mi Idle of the stage, and, after a" word to the leader of the band,, folded his arma akimbo, and then and there 1 ' oancful a Lancashire clog hornpipe, in a manner that brought down the house. .When he had finished, he came again to the front, and addressing the now enthusiastic gallery," remarked,; " You have had what you paid for; we will now go ou with Macbeth." '
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Kumara Times, Issue 562, 16 July 1878, Page 2
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141WHAT THEY PAID FOR. Kumara Times, Issue 562, 16 July 1878, Page 2
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