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"The poor scholar appears, alone, and in his ordinary dress, he moralises at large on the political situation."
"Grand finale. Enter all the Kings, with female attendants on horseback, etc. The Prime Minister's commission is read, and robes and insignia are given to him. A long parting ceremony takes place between the newly elected Minister and the Kings, one of whom drives off in his chariot, (represented by two flags with wheels depicted on them and held like a wheelbarrow by a female attendant). Then the Prime Minister sings a long 'scena' comparing his present state with his former obscurity, and exeunt omnes."
The Farce.
"Hò A-lan was a 'ne'er-do-well' (he looked the character); and was introduced to the audience as receiving a lecture from his wife, who pointed her admonitions with a bamboo for having 'lost' the price of a piece of pork she had sent him to sell. She more than suspects the truth, viz., that he has gambled away the money."
"A-lan, incautiously wishing his wife dead, has ill times of it, till he promises amendment, and proposes to take the household pig for sale, and to start afresh in life with the proceeds. The good wife consents, and sends him off with many a caution."
"The silly fellow takes his pig (which was represented by a small block of wood at the end of a string) to the village market, where he meets two of his gambling companions. They at once mark down the pig as a prize, and enter into a bargain with him for it. He is first caught in a foolish error about the price, from his ignorance of counting, and then, the sum being agreed on, the purchaser reminds him of a supposed gambling debt he owes
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from last year, remarking, that the pig, which he walks off with, will just cover the amount."
"A-làn is stupefied, and at his wit's end what to do, or how to meet his wife. He gives a comic fancy sketch of her reception of him, and says he dare not go home. The other swindler, to get his accomplice clear off, offers to give him lessons in boxing, so that he may meet his wife on more equal terms, and gives a few exhibitions of his skill by inviting A-làn to hit him, when he knocks him down in sundry wonderful ways. A-lán is very anxious to learn, and agrees to say no more about the pig, for which he is taught three feints, or modes of parrying an attack, and that he may practice them, the professor offers to personate his wife, which he does very amusingly, coming at him with feminine scoldings, and gestures, and trying to cuff him for the loss of the pig. A-làn practices his newly acquired art of self defence very successfully, the professor being floored each time."
"He then went home, confident in his newly acquired skill, and, naturally, a rupture followed. A-làn tried all three of the feints he had learned, but to no purpose, his wife knew them all and a few more, so he soon found himself ignominiously tied to the door-post, with his wife's old jacket over his head, while she went to her supper, promising to come and settle accounts with him when she had finished!"
"While she was supping, a hunchback came by. Seeing A-làn tied there, with his face covered, he asks, 'Halloo! are you a man or a demon?' A-lán asserts himself to be a man, but, spying advantage in the ignorance of the hunchback, declares that this is his way of advertising his business. What is his business!' 'Curing deformities!' 'The hunchback is charmed. Can he cure him? Of course he can, and the price is to be a certain subscription
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"The poor scholar appears, alone, and in his ordinary dress, he moralises at large on the political situation."
"Grand finale. Enter all the Kings, with female attend- ants on horseback, etc. The Prime Minister's commission is read, and robes and insignia are given to him. A long parting ceremony takes place between the newly elected Minister and the Kings, one of whom drives off in his chariot, (represented by two flags with wheels depicted on them and held like a wheelbarrow by a female attendant). Then the Prime Minister sings a long 'scena' comparing his present state with his former obscurity, and exeunt omnes."
The Farce.
"Hò A-lan was a 'ne'er-do-well' (he looked the cha- racter); and was introduced to the audience as receiving a lecture from his wife, who pointed her admonitions with a bamboo for having 'lost' the price of a piece of pork she had sent him to sell. She more than suspects the truth, viz., that he has gambled away the money."
"A-lan, incautiously wishing his wife dead, has ill times of it, till he promises amendment, and proposes to take the household pig for sale, and to start afresh in life with the proceeds. The good wife consents, and sends him off with many a caution."
"The silly fellow takes his pig (which was represented by a small block of wood at the end of a string) to the village market, where he meets two of his gambling com- panions. They at once mark down the pig as a prize, and enter into a bargain with him for it. He is first caught in a foolish error about the price, from his ignorance of counting, and then, the sum being agreed on, the pur- chaser reminds him of a supposed gambling debt he owes
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from last year, remarking, that the pig, which he walks off with, will just cover the amount."
"A-làn is stupefied, and at his wit's end what to do, or how to meet his wife. He gives a comic fancy sketch of her reception of him, and says he dare not go home. The other swindler, to get his accomplice clear off, offers to give him lessons in boxing, so that he may meet his wife on more equal terins, and gives a few exhibitions of his skill by inviting A-làn to hit him, when he knocks him down in sundry wonderful ways. A-lán is very anxious to learn, and agrees to say no more about the pig, for which he is taught three feints, or modes of parrying an attack, and that he may practice them, the professor offers to personate his wife, which he does very amusingly, coming at him with feminine scoldings, and gestures, and trying to cuff him for the loss of the pig. A-làn practices his newly acquired art of self defence very successfully, the professor being floored each time."
"He then went home, confident in his newly acquired skill, and, naturally, a rupture followed. A-làn tried all three of the feints he had learned, but to no purpose, his wife knew them all and a few more, so he soon found himself ignominiously tied to the door-post, with his wife's old jacket over his head, while she went to her supper, promising to come and settle accounts with him when she had finished!"
"While she was supping, a hunchback came by. Seeing A-làn tied there, with his face covered, he asks, 'Halloo! are you a man or a demon?' A-lán asserts himself to be a man, but, spying advantage in the ignorance of the hunchback, declares that this is his way of advertising his business. What is his business!' 'Curing deformities!'" "The hunchback is charmed. Can he cure him? Of course he can, and the price is to be a certain subscription
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