Peck's Sunshine: Being a Collection of Articles Written for Peck's Sun,; Milwaukee, Wis. - 1882Peck, George W. (George Wilbur)
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Peck's Sunshine: Being a Collection of Articles Written for Peck's Sun,; Milwaukee, Wis. - 1882
Peck, George W. (George Wilbur)
American wit and humor
There is one way to settle this matter, and that is when she plays
Hamlet. Let the stage manager put a large spider in the skull of Yorick,
and when Hamlet takes up the skull and says, “Alas, poor Yorick, I was
pretty solid with him,” let the spider crawl out of one of the eye holes
onto Hamlet's hand, and proceed to walk up Miss Dickinson's sleeve.
If Hamlet simply shakes the spider off, and goes on with the funeral,
unconcerned, then Miss Dickinson is a man. But if Hamlet screams bloody
murder, throws the skull at the grave digger, falls over into the grave,
tears his shirt, jumps out of the grave and shakes his imaginary skirts,
gathers them all up in his hands and begins to climb up the scenes like
a Samantha cat chased by a dog, and gets on top of the first fly and
raises Hamlet's back and spits, then Miss Dickinson is a woman. The
country will watch eagerly for the result of the test, which we trust
will be made at the Boston Theatre next week.
OUR CHRISTIAN NEIGHBORS HAVE GONE.
It pains us to announce that the Young Men's Christian Association,
which has had rooms on two sides of our office for more than a year,
has moved away. We do not know why they moved, as we have tried to do
everything that it was possible to do for their comfort, and to cheer
them in their lonely life. That their proximity to the _Sun_ office has
been beneficial to them we are assured, and the closeness has not done
us any hurt as we know of. Many times when something has happened that,
had it happened in La Crosse, might have caused us to be semi-profane,
instead of giving way to the fiery spirit within us, and whooping it up,
we have thought of our neighbors who were truly good, and have turned
the matter over to our business manager, who would do the subject
justice or burst a flue.
When the young Christians have given a sociable, we have always put on
a resigned and pious expression and gone amongst them about the time
the good bald-headed brother brought up the pail full of coffee, and the
cheerful sister cut the cake.
No one has been more punctual at these free feeds than we have, though
we have often noticed that we never got a fair divide of the cake that
was left, when they were dividing it up to carry home for the poor. We
have been as little annoyed by our neighbors as we could have been by
anybody that might have occupied the rooms.
It is true that at times the singing of a church tune in there when we
were writing a worldly editorial has caused us to get tangled, but the
piety that we have smuggled into our readers through the church music
will more than atone for the wrath we have felt at the discordant music,
and we have hopes the good brothers will not be averse to saying a good
word for us when they feel like it.
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