Work and Win #07: Fred Fearnot as Actor — page 32: what you’re looking at

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80 FRED FRARNGL AS AN ACTOR. terview with her she telegraphed in her husband’s name, to the advance agent, to address all of ‘his communications to Fred Fearnot, as manager of the company. Having thus arranged the matter, he — held them together about six weeks longer, playing to crowded houses in St. Louis, Memphis, Nashville” | and Louisville, which brought them to the end of the — theatrical season, with about four thousand dollars © in the treasury, over and above the very liberal sal-s J} little girl! that out of the salary you are now receiv- qj | aries that had been paid them. « ing, you keep half of it by you all the time, for one “Say, Terry,” said Fred, “let’s give five hundred | placed trusty men in the box office, who saw that ee never knows what’s going to happen. After this en- | dollars each to the girls, so they can rest throughthe I everything was done right, and accounted for every dollar received, so far aS Fred was able to find out, ‘What a fortunate thing it was for us, that you were with us, Fred,’’ said Gussie, ‘‘for I had sent nearly all my money home to mother and would have been stranded if the company had disbanded.’’ ‘Oh, you forget you have a brother along,’’ he laughed; ‘‘but let me give you a little bit of advice, gagement, I doubt that 1 will play again.’ summer and be ready to join us again in the fall, if — «Oh, dear,’ she exclaimed, “are you going to | we decide to keep up the racket.”’ leave the stage 2” «All right, old man,’’ replied Terry, and the four 4 «T am not a professional, you know,”’ he replied, girls were made happy by the gift of five hundred dol- © | ‘and Terry and I are thinking, of going to Califor- | lars each, which seemed like a fortune to them. | nia, or taking a trip around the world.”’ The company disbanded and the members took thec When the other girls heard of that, they were in a | train for New York City. i state of alarm and begged Fred to hold the company Thus ended the career of Fred Fearnot as an actor. it together until the end of the theatrical season; ‘‘else | Brief as it was, he won a splendid reputation as one of. we will all be thrown out of employment and probably | the most brilliant exponents of the histrionic art be- ay not be able to make other engagements until the be- ginning of the next season. ‘All right,”? he said. “If Mrs. Hammond will place me in communication with the advance agent Ill try to do so.” That day he saw Mrs. Hammond, and after an in- fore the footlights. [THE END. |. q Read “FRED FEARNOT AT SEA; OR, A Cuase ACROSS THE OCEAN,”’ which will be the next number — ¥ (8) of WORK AND WIN. i | LETTERS i. 7ETTERS FROM: °° + “Drop yez knoife !” P, ADOLPHUS SWEETCAKE| |". Mihai Dude. on’t ye dare cut another bit off av that gob aw beefsteak that ye have upon yez plate !”’ No. 7. I weally thought for a minute that the cweature 6 had gone wild. ay Pwesently, though,. I wegained my self-possession. E ane ‘= a To the Editor of “ WORK AND WIN.” I weceived my pay this mawning, and 1 am vewy gwateful to you for it. | “‘ Why do you speak to me in such a mannah ?”’ i It came in vewy handy, as my landlady had | ™tewwogated. 7 bothered me about my board, just because I was a She sniffed. ' twifle in awweahs, about three months. “Ye are not aware, ye peppermint candy stick, are 3 She did it weal wudely, too, no considewation for | Ye?’ She said. | fe a fellah’s finer feelings. “No, Te ‘am.’ ‘i It was at the suppah-table. “Thin it must be sawdust ye have in yez head in- — Most of the -chappies were there, too. stead av bhrains. How long have ye been here ?”’ 5 I came and took my seat. ‘“«Thirseen weeks.”’ \. 3 I began to wepast (wepast, I think, is a bettah- ‘How much board have yez paid ?”’ . sounding word than ‘‘eat.’’) “ I weflected. NE I saw that my landlady—her name is Donnelly, ‘“‘T believe that I paid in advance when I came,”’ Lie howwid name, ain’t it? I think that if I were a | weturned, with dignity. woman and could not mawwy aman with a nicer— “Wan wake,”’ said she; ‘‘and how much since 2. _ ah—appellation than Donnelly, I would pwefer to we- | Not the smell ava cent. And yersilf sporting around \ main single, even if I had to sew clumsy wed shirts | wid a gould-headed cane, and wearing buckets av | upon a machine to buy bwead—did not look pleased | flowers in yez button-hole. And haven’t I heard yez -at me at all. tell av yez going to the thayater? Ye at the thay- The expression of her face was not placid. ater thrying to mash some av the corpse de bally, I Wather was it the weverse. suppose, and me down in the kitchen wid me arums— _ Mr. Sweetcake ?”? she suddenly bwoke out. — up to the elbows in soapsuds. Faix, if I had the “T looked up. money that ye owe him I could go to the thay ater 5 ‘Well ?”’ said I. too, and sit in an uproar box loike a leddy. Now, ye «©Put down yez fork.”’ cadaverous gum-dhrop !”’ Stupefiedly I obeyed. She paused for a reply, ‘ a : “HANDSOME HARRY.” — reve "