AN ENTHUSIASTIC ACTOR.
One'night Munden the actor was playing in the Committee as Oba.4iah, and Jack Johnstone as Teagoe, who has to play Obadiah from a black bottle. Such extraordinary and unusual grimaces did Munden makes as he took down his draughts that not only did the audience break into convulsions of laughter, Johnstone himself grew almost hysterical. The moment however that Munden was borne from the stage and the drop fell, hi leaped up and screamed for a stomachpump. " I'm a dead man," he shouted—<f I'm poisoned ! Where's the villain that filled that bottle ? Ugh, oh ! Hang it, it is lamp-oil, sir, every drop of it!" Johnstone had the empty bottle in his handHe smelt. It was too true. _ The pro-Derty-man in his haste had mistaken the lamp-oil for sherry and water, ({ Bt}t why in the name of all that ia holy," said Johnstone, " why, Joe, did you allow me to pour the whole of that iilthy stuff down your throat when a look or a word would have stopped me V Munden's reply was, worthy of an enthusiastic actor. '' Jack," he gasped out, "my dear _bpy, so I should, but there was such a glorious roar at the heart to spoil the scene, though I thought I should have died every time you poured a fresh gulp."
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Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 259, 20 February 1877, Page 2
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219AN ENTHUSIASTIC ACTOR. Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 259, 20 February 1877, Page 2
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