e look at ye well:
(_Genial amusement._) Why, I'm derned ef ye don't look as skeered as a
tortoise growed out of his shell!
What's the style of your show? This yer pictur looks gay:
Why, ye don't tell me so! (_Homely gratification._) It's a
_Murrican_ play!
And you mosey along with the posters--wa'al, now, do ye find the
job _pay_?
(_With a kindly curiosity._) Say, what was it--_drink_? As has led
to it....Stop!
Wa'al, on'y to _think_--Ef it isn't _his_ shop!
This identical theater as hires ye. Hev ye heerd on him?--HASDRUBAL JOPP!
So ye _hev_, I declar! Oh, it's likely the same,
Which I knew him out thar (_indicate the United States by a vague
jerk of your thumb_). And I reckon it's _Fame_,
If a broken-down blizzard like you--(No offence!)--kin look _so_
at his name!

(_By the word_ "so" _you should suggest a movement of pleased
surprise on the part of the Sandwich-man_.)

Can't ye stay for awhile--Till I've opened my head?
So he's bin an' struck ile? Which the same's what _I_ said--
Fur I see him in _Fish outer Water_, and sez I (_sententiously_),
"A Tragedian _bred_!"
Yes, I allays allowed, As he must make a hit;
And not at all proud--No, _Sir_--all on him grit! (_Affectionately._)
Jess you wait till he hears _I_'m around, and you mark the reception
I git!
For us two were such chums As ye don't often find.
Lord! the way it all comes Scrouging in on my mind!--
(_Abruptly._) This dern sun is that pesky an' strong, it's enough for
to strike a man blind!

(_Here you should convey the idea that this is a mere excuse for a
not unmanly emotion; this is generally done by wiping the eye
surreptitiously on the coat-sleeve._)

A freehandeder cuss Never stepped on a street.
Which he'd raise such a fuss, When we happened to meet--
I could see he'd be hurt in his feelins ef he warn't not allowed
to stand treat!
So he's managed to climb To the top of the tree!

[_Homely, unselfish satisfaction._

But I'll bet every time--Big a boss as he be--
He remembers his pardner in Frisco--Yes, he don't forgit little old Me!
[_This proudly, but tenderly._

(_Here the Sandwich-man is supposed to make some sort of assent.
You turn upon him savagely, with an irritation assumed to
conceal deep feeling._)

What on airth do _you_ mean? By a' sayin' "_You're_ sure
Of it." (_With half recognition._) Se