A NOVEL SHOT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1641, 22 March 1884, Page 2

A NOVEL SHOT.

As an illustration of tho amusing, and occasionally, it must bo admitted, distressing episodes in an actor's life, the following anecdote may be read with interest, it is authentic. It occurred some few years since in one of the smaller towns, where Mis Sarah Thome, was playing a brief engagement, TJpou the night in question "The Colleen Bawn was the attraction. The audience was enthusiastic, and everything went well until the time when it was necessary for Miles to firo the shot which gives to Danny Man his quietus, It was then discovered that the gun, which during the earlier portion of % [lerfonuonce had been most obtrusive and which had calletj forth from several of the artistes the caution " mind the gun," could nowhere be found, " Where I ,s the gun," was now anxiously whispered from point to point, and the weapon lia'd disappeared and the moment of its requirement was at hand. A sudden thought: one of the actors had bought a pound of biscuits on his way to the theatre, he hurrcdly entered the dress-ing-room, and emptying the biscuits on the table, blew out the bag in the nick of time, popped it loudly at the wing, and the wicked Danny rolled over into the water, shot hj a paper bag.