This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 Excerpt: ...struts up to a " trap" which is undergoing repairs, and after looking carefully down it, again joins the property-man. "Where's Wilson?" he asked. "He's gone to see about lumber for a pair of 'flats, ' sir," is the reply. "Have you heard him speak of the changes?" "They're monstrous slap-up," replies the other, picking ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 Excerpt: ...struts up to a " trap" which is undergoing repairs, and after looking carefully down it, again joins the property-man. "Where's Wilson?" he asked. "He's gone to see about lumber for a pair of 'flats, ' sir," is the reply. "Have you heard him speak of the changes?" "They're monstrous slap-up," replies the other, picking a fleck of Dutch metal from the side of his nose. (It will be observed that this useful person is not very choice in his language.) "Some of the ' tricks' are stunnin', and '11 make 'em open their heyes. That barley-sheaf turnin' into a Yankee yacht is reg'lar bobbish; and when the butter-firkins changes to silver tea-pots, there'll be a dead yell all over the 'ouse." (Here the property-man points to some object iu the flies, and drops a remark touching a shower of Cupids during the representation of the " Floral Realms of Light," but as we did cot quite catch the sense of the expression, we cannot conscientiouslv hazard a detailed account of this portion of the dialogue.) He pursues his conversation--" I was in the paint-room just now, to see that set of clouds that Charley Thompson's a doin' of--there's not hanythink can touch 'em, sir, an' the Cave of 'Orrors is as black as the Docks." A tall slender man at this juncture passes across the stage at the back. He has on canvas overhauls, garnished with miscellaneous daubs of color, as if he had been a target for painted bullets. The stage-manager beckons him, and they retire to their room, to talk over certain "matters and things" concerning the scenery and pictures of the pantomime. The property-man has gone to that dingy, long, low apartment, which is the sanctum where he manufactures canvas legs of mut...
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