THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG, PA. . THE SHAMROCK Tim fpreniiinf to I Mr to Tlew, A . 1 l ini. tlm m. !... vtii f ' hllA. Oi i;tic.-nly tu.m HI 1 with ilfw, - Ail wct ihr- lily' frairmni'e; "-" ;ui tin re fluw- r n or i' tr to ma, Ti nt tnm not a tirum h or tree, I... i .. . i .. .. - . ' i llijl IU I IIP Kinw II if i ii j A i k1 of It Ii hvc, lUi-re mo Imt three, Tit Iie,ml native liamruo. 4 Vy emintry' flower, I love It well. rir tntrr imi tain ri mil. All J tench 'lie nil . re's mart to tfreu In prile of Ireland' shamrock; The emblem nf our faith dertne, ! t.ioli lil a. ft. Patriot made to (bins. To tOM-li eliTTi il truth auburn, Ai.il wl.lun th.ilt li.ii a lui. a time, Anil lona; - b.io.m tbe s.muirock. A, twin a wreath of shamrock leiTest 'J l.i'y tli-cki'd t he banner of our chief Aii.i aimed the Irish exile' Brief. our cuu iiry onuruhixl ahanirook: Tbe inuo inquired witu word of pralae 'I a.' pieta of our turly days. To wrlie In many a flowing phraae, ah laiug, in punerlul, tlin liunlajf 'I he virtue uf lUe ahaiunc. lit who lina li'ft hi Island home - iluuenih a turoigti ajr to roam, v.inl in a foio it i chin uiiKiiown, l'.oiieur hu lori I ho ahajirotk. , M'li ii ou the fi-Ht of hi. Futiic Da He kneel ul'utii in ohuruu to pray ror holy li-u und fur awny lie ierlj miai.i yuiub'. gmila! rny, W uiiu u2.i.(,' ou .no .muirou. The brlabtoit ir-m of the rarest flower 'i Lul evir b.m hum In Kmluru oowert l uaC'li till' I.I II HO. Hull luH power 'ILutuwoil vvituiti the shaiuiuvk; Swict iiK iuuiiet. una reirii,inK dew, Tue pant w.tii mii it cliHiiurt renew, Ho biiuiu.., tile iut tiueie vtld Huwer grew. Tuo lul.li.i.i .noi.o , the . lur.utfU low . kit iwU to ci.. i luu a.muu oca". Land of the West, rr.r native Isle, MiO bia.eii' I jvc Uio.i ii. o siiiile, Auu ua-ilMi to that itiHy Lieu.le '. lie lovni-i ot llii) iiM.uii'Oc ; M;., Ood.or vei cueiidii tbae Ju pe . a..d .ove an.i htirmon", ALU rulik tiioti pio.nl 'uilu iiHtio:: free, i u oa pry iu o.uiur'U icr. ml tor ire.ui sua llu all .uilvi, -Oscar Wilde. sentimkntTEdkago.v. Tlu iv v;i.s iiotlilru; alxftit the outsldo if tlio Di'ajfou to niiliciito mo large a ,H'iTi'iitno of ti'u.hut'Ui. It wan a 1 inert ivfiyrlay tl:ai)u, with th umral squatiwiii lililo, slittt-riug like silver armor, a conimouii'acu crested head wlrii a f.jrlu'd toutuc, a tall like a barbed arrow, a pair of fan-sliaped w.uh ud four lwiilTcroutly feroajaus cliuws, out? per f jot. How It came to be so susivptiblo you shall hear, and then, peruaiw, you will be leas sur prised at lis uuptvcedeiitod and ua draon'lke behavior. Uuce upou a time, us the good old chroulcl.-r, Richard Johnson, rulateth, Kjr.vpt was cpposi-d by a dragon who made a plaguy to-tlo unless given a virgin daily for dinner. For twenty four years ttie ini'tiu was practicable; then 'the supply gave out. There was absolutely uj virgin left In the realip pave Sabra. Hhe King's daughter, and poor Ptolnuiy -was reduced to parting with the Princes. Now, many centuries after these events did not happcu, a certain wordhy citizen, au llliteraite fellow, but none the worsa for that, inade them Into a pa'nnmlu9i wit, "St. George and the Dragviu; or. Harlequin Tom Thumb." And the Maine was duly played at a provincial theatre, wlch a lightly clad chorus of Egj-ptlan la-ssoa. In glaring contradiction of the dearth of such in the fable, and a Sabra who sang t.) thrin a topical ong about the County (Viuncll. Curiously enough. In private life, Sabra. altihough her name was Miss on the posters, was really a Miss. She was quite a.s young and pretty as she looked, 'too, and only rouged herself for rhe sake of stage perspective. Kvcrybody about the theatre liked Sabra, fivm the actor-inanager (who played St. George) to the stage door keeper (who played St. Peter). Even her understudy lid not wish her IU. lnvle was the head man of the Dragon. He played the anterior parts, wagtfled the head and flapped the wings and "nt grewsome grunts and penny scjuibs through The "flre-brea th ine" jaws. He was a dour, middle aged, but stagestruck Scot, very proud in his rapid rise In the profes sion, for he had b:gun as a dramatist. Tip.- rear of the Dragon was simply, known as .TUiiiny. Jimmy was a wreck. His past was a mystHi-y. H's face was a brief re c.irl of baleful experiences, and he had the r. .-pirates of a gentleman. He had gon on the stage to be out of the snow and th rain. Not knowing this, rh" Givor-'iii.tnager paid li'.m ninepenee a nls'ht. His wages Just kept him In beer money. The original Sabra tamed two linns, lmr perhair It was a greater feat to tame this half of a Dragon. Jimmy's tenderness for Sal)ra began at reheatsal, when he saw a good deal of her. au 1 Micltated h'mself on the fact that they were on In the same scenes. After a while, however, he p.Tcelve.l iiliis to be a d.x'eful droffw batk. for whereas at rehearsal he oiiUl Jump out of his skin and brpathe himself h:m1 feast his eyes ou Sabra when the Dragon was disengaged, on Hi- s:ng lie was forced to remain cramp, d in darkness while Ptolemy was clc.vning or St. George executing a ft- p tiatiee. Sabra was Invisible, except for an odd 'moment or so be tween t".ij scenes when he caught sight of her si ding to her dressing room liN-.' a s:rojk of discreet sunshine. Still lie had his companion; her dulcet notes ri .ached U'.a darkness (mellowed by the P4'u!e.l canvas and the tin scales sewn over iti, us ti'.io chant of the unseen cui'koo reaches the woodland wander er. SmeUmes, whin she sang that sjng about tho County Council Iho for got to wag 'his tail. Thus wis hove blind, while Indif ference hi the person of David Brigg looked Its full through toe mask that stood for tho iinonster's bead. After a bit .Timiny conceived a mad envy of his superior's privileges; lie longed to see Sabra through the Dragon's mouth. He was so weary af the little ttr'-p of stage under the Dragon's beMy wlili'h, even If hu peered through the breathing holes In the iatch of paint disguised gauze left Into Its paunch, was rhe most he could see. One nlgbt lis asked Davie to change places with him. Davie's look of surprise and consternation was beautiful to see. "D ) I hear arlcht?" be asked. "Just for a night," said Jimmy, abashed. "But l'ye no ken this Is a speakln' part?" "I did not--know thaC faltered Ilaimy. '. "Where's your ears, mon?" Inquired D.ivle sternly. "Dinna ye hear me urowHn' aa1 gr zidtln' and squallu' and' sUh'llnT said Jimmy. "Hut 1 thought yoii did It at random. "Thooht I did It at random!" wled Davie, holding tip tils hands In hor ror. "And tiiebiw also ye thocht ony body could do'tl" Jimmy's shamed silence gave con sent also to this unflinching Interpret taf on of his thonplft. Bit Iavle remained doggedly robust nnd so Jimmy still walked In AarXness. Tie often argued tbe matter out with his superior, maintaining that they ought to toss for fh position hed or tail. Falling to convince Davie, he offered him fourjet'oe night for nh nccommixl'a.ti't.'n, but Davie saw lo bis extravagance evidence of a detemnlned design to supplant him. In despair Jimmy watched for a Chance of sllrv ping Into the wire framework before Davie, but the coD-scW-wtloua artist was always at his iwst first. They held dialogues on the subject while with pantomimic license the chorus of Kgyptlan lasses was dancing around the Dragon os If It were a Maypole. ThPlr angry messages to each other vibrated along tho wires of their prison hoiMe, ending tho Dragon with lutes t nal war. The silent, hopeless longing, the chivalrous devotion yearning dumbly within Jimmy, did not stop his beer; he drank more to drown his thought. Every night he entered Into ihls part gladly, knowing blmse.'.f elevated In the sonloglcal scale, not derailed, by an assumption that made him only half a boast. Only Davie knew that In that Dra gon there were the ruins of a man and the .making of a great aotorl "Why are ye sae anxious to stand In my shoon'f" he would nsk, when the hind logs became too obstreperous. "I don't want to be In your slioes; I only want to see the stage for once." But Davie would shake his head In credulously making the Dragon's mask wobble at the wrong cues. At Ust, once When Sabra was singing, poor Jimmy, dr.ven to extremities, confessed the truth, and had the mortification of feeling the wires vibrate with the Scotchman's sl!ent laughter. He blush ed unseen. But It transpired that Davie's amuse ment was not so mudh scornful as skeptical. He still suspected tho tall of a sin'ster intention to wag the Dragon. "Xae. nue," flic said, "-e shallna get me to swallow that. Ye're an unco pnlr creature, but ye're not sa daft as to want tho moon. She's a bonnle lassie, and I wlllna be surprised If she catches a coronet In the end. when sbe makes a name In Lunnon; for the swells here, though I see a wlieen fool ish faces nlcht after the nlcht In the stalls, are but a pulr !ot Hh, but Irs a gey grand tocher Is a pretty face. In the meanwhlles, like a canny girl, she's settln' her cap at the chief." "Hold your tongue!" hissed tho hind legs. "She's as pure as an angel." "Hoot-too!" answored the head. "Dinna leebel the angels. It's no an angel that lets her manager give her sly squeezes and saft kisses that are nao In the stage directions." "Then she can't know be Is a .mar ried man," said the hind legs hoarse v. "Dinna fash yourself she kens that full weel and a thocht or two more. I ed I Ye should just see fhow she and St. George carry on after the death scene, when he's snpposlt to ha' res cued ber and rhey fall a-cuddlln'." "You're a liar!" said the hind legs. Davie roared and breathed burning squibs and capered alwut and .Tommy had to prance after him in Involuntary pursuit. He felt choking in his stuffy hot black rollicking dungeon. The thought of this bloated sexagenarian, fakd up as a Jeune promler, pawing at the sweet litt'e girl sickened him. "Dom'd leear yersel!" resumed Davie coimng to a standstill. "I meant) be lieve my own eyes, what they tell me nlcht after nlcht." "Then let me see for myself, nnd I'll believe you." "Ye dinna eatdh me like that," said Davie, Chuckling. After that poor Jlmmiy's anxiety to see the stage became feverish. He even .meditated ma'iugerliig and going In front of the house, but could only have got a distant view, and at the r'sk of losing ills place In an over crowded profession. Ills opportunity came at length, but not till the panto mime was half run out and the actor iniwager sought to galvaulze It by a "second edition," which in sum meant a new lot of the variety entertainers who came on and played copophonea before Ptolemy, did card tricks In the desert, and exhibited trained poodles to the palmtres. But David, deter mined to rise to the occasion, thought out a fresh conception of his part, in volving tlhree new grunts, and was so busy rehearsing them at home that he forgot the lilght of rhe Jiours and arrived at the theatre only In time to take second p'ace In the Dragon that was Just waiting, half manned, at the wing. He was so flustered that he did not even think of protesting for the tiret few minutes. When he did protest, Jimmy said, "What are yon jawing about? This Is the second edi tion, isn't it?" and caracoled around, dragging the unhappy David In bis train. "I'll tell tho chiof," groaned the hind legs. "All right, let him know you were late," answered the head dheerfully. "Dh, but lt'e pltanlrk, here. I canna see onyUilug." "You seo I'm no liar. Shall I send a squib your way?" "Nay, uay, nae larking. Mind tbe business or you'll ruin tny reputa tion." "Mind my business, IU talnd yours," replied Jimmy Joyously, tor the lovely Sabra was smiling right In bis eyes. A Dragon divided against itself can not stand, so Davie had to wait till tbe beast came off. To his horror Jimmy refused to budge from bis shell. He begged for Just one "keek" at the stage, but Jimmy reviiod "You don't catch mie like that." Davie said llttlo more, but he matured a crafty plau, and in the next scene he whis pered ; "Jimmy!" "Stout up, Davie; I'm busy." "I've got a pin, aaid if ye sbaJlna promise to restore mo my rlchts after the next exit, ye shall feel the tost of It." "You'll Just stay where you are, came back the peremptory reply. Deep went the pin In Jimmy's rear, and the Dragon rare such a bowl that P.ivle's Mood ran eo'd. Too late Tis remembered that It was not Wie Dra gon's cue, nnd that he was making havoc wlfh bis own professional re putation. Through the canvas be felt the stern gaze or tne actor manager. He thought of pricking Jimmy only at the howling cue, but then the bowl thus produced was so superior to bla own. that If Jimmy chose to ciaim it, he mlgSit bo at once engaged to re place him In the part. hat a dllem' ma ! Kar different emotions were felt at thi Dragon's bead, where Jimmy's Joy faded gradually away, replaced by ft passion of Indlguation, ns with love sharpened eyes 4io ascertained tot himself tho true re'atlons of the actor manager with Jils "prlne'fial girl. He saw front bis coign of vantage the poor, modest, little Phlug shrinking bo- fore the cowardly advances of her employer, who took every possible ad vantage or tne stage potentialities, in ways the audience could not discrim inate from the acting. Alas! What could the gentle !ltt!e breail-wlnner do? But Jimmy's blood was Ixilllng. Davie's great scene arrived; the tntttla royal between St. George and the Dra gon. Sabra, bow I tellingly radiant In white Arabian 'silk, stood under tlhe orange tree where the pendent fruit was iabnlled tihree a penny. Here St, George, In knightly armor clad, retired between the rounds, to lie sponged by, the fair Sabra. from w'hose lps ha took the opportunity of drinking en couragement. When the umpire cried "Time!" Jimmy uttered Inarticulate cries of real rage nnd malediction, vomiting his squibs straight nt tba chtnnplon's eyes with Intent to do him grevlotis lmdily Injury. But squibs have their own way ot jumping, and the actor-managers face was protect ed by his glittering burgonet. At last Jlnwny nnd Davie were duly despatched by St. George's trusty sword, Ascalon, which passed right between fhemi and stuck out on the other side amid the frantic applauso of tbe house. The Dragon reeled sideways and bit the dust, of which there was plenty. Then Sabra rushed forward from under the orange-tree and encircled her hero's hauberk with a stage embrace, while St. George, lifting up his visor, rained kiss after kiss on Sabra's scarlet face, and the "gods" went honrse with Joy. "Oh. sir!" Jimmy beard the still small voice of the bread-winner pro test feebly again and again amid the thunder, as she tried to withdraw her self from her employer's grasp. This was tho last straw. Augir and the foul air of his prison wrought up Jimmy to asphyxiation point. What wonder If the Dragon lost his head complete ly? Davie will never forget the horror of that moment when he felt himself dragged upward as by an Irresistible tornado, and knew himself for a min ed actor. Mechanically he essayed to cling to the ground, but In vain. The dead dragon was on Its feet In a mo ment; in another, Jimmy had thrown off the mask, showing a shock of hair and a blotched crimson face, sjiotted with great beails of perspiration. Un conscious of this culminating outrage, Davie made desperate prods with his pin, but Jimmy was equally uncon scious of the pricks. The thunder d'ed abruptly. A dead silence fell upon the whole house you could have heard Davie's pin drop. St. George, In amazed consternation, released his lio'd on Sabra and cowered back be fore the wild glare of the bloodshot eyes. "How dare you?" rang out in hoarse screaming accents from the protruding head, nnd with one terrific blow of Its right fore-leg the hybrid monster felled Sabra's Insulter to tho ground. The astonished St. George lay on bis back staring vacantly at the flies. "I'll teach you how to behave to a lady!" roared the Dragon. Then Davie tugged him frantically backward, but Jimmy cavorted ob stinately In the centre of the stage, willed the actor-manager .had taken even' In his fall, so that the Dragon's hind legs trampled blindly on Davie's prostrate chief, amid the hysterical convulsions of the house. ' Next morning the local papers were loud In their praises of the "second edition" of "St. George and the Dragon," espoMa'ly of the "genuinely burlesque and topsy-turvy episode In wihlch tlhe Dragon rises from tho dead, to read St. George a lesson In chiv alry; a really side-splitting conception, made funnier by the grotesque revela tion of the constituents of the Dragon Just before It retires for the night." The actor-manager bad no option but to adopt this reading, so had to be hoofed and publicly reprimanded every evening during the rest of tha season, glad enough to get off so cheaply. Of course, Jimmy was dismissed, but St. George was painfully polite to Sabra ever after, not knowing but what Jimmy was in the ga'lery with a brickbat, and perhaps not unim pressed by the lesson In chivalry he was receiving every evening. Perhaps you think the Dragon de served to marry Sabra, but that would be really too topsy-turvy, and tho sentimental beast himself was quite satisfied to have resued her from St ("leorge. But tbe person who profited most by Jimmy's sacrifice was Davie, who stopped Into a real speaklmj part, emerged from the obscurity of Jils sur rouudlugs, burst his swaddling clotihes and made his a.piearance on the stage .1 thing he could scarcely 1x said to have done In the Dragon's Inside. And so the world wags. I ZangwllL Itra; X.nnf1liolclere. 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