We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.
Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.
COMEDY. G. D. 3136.
SEE WON'T PAY HER BENT. Approximate Length, 184 feet.
Price, $22.08.
A row of tenement houses at which a house agent appears; knocking at the door of the first one, a woman appears in answer and hands him the weekly rent. At the next door, in answer to his summons, a man appears and prepares to pay him his due. Quite a different reception awaits him at the third house, for, on making known his wants, he is refused. On his persisting "he must have the rent," the woman, without further ado, although not young in years, promptly knocks him down. He gets up and indignantly protests against such treatment, and is again knocked down by the virago. On arising from the second fall, he goes off for the police, and goes to the door with the policeman; again he demands his dues. The virago simply knocks the man and the policeman into the gutter.
As the policeman tries to arrest her, he is rather heavily mauled. The policeman blows his whistle for further assistance, and calls upon a gentleman, in the name of the law, to help him. The gentleman fearlessly lays his hand upon the woman, when, to his utter astonishment, he finds himself sprawling on the ground. Hastily picking himself up, shaking the dust from his frock coat tails he again essays the task; with the assistance of the policeman and rent collector, they make cautious advances. The virago receives them, figuratively, with open arms, standing as though saying: "Come one and all." No sooner do they come within reach of her fists than she lays the three in the dust, as though they were a set of ninepins put up for the pleasure of her knocking them down.
Four pedestrians now appear and go to the aid of the three fallen men. Several of the crowd assists the three men, and the overwhelming numbers compel the woman to seek safety in flight into the house, slamming the door in their faces. We see her in the room, on the first floor, throwing out pots, pans, chairs and stools, onto the b<"»ds of the crowd below. The men break in, enter the room, carry tue virago and her daughter (who had been assisting her throw out the kitchen utensils) down the stairs, where the ambulance truck awaits them. In spite of her kicking, scratching" and biting, she is eventually placed and strapped down, and with a whole crowd of children at her heels, is run off to the police station, while the daughter, in custody of two stalwart policemen, brings up the rear.
a. D. 1640.
THE DERVISH'S REVENGE. Approximate Length, 510 feet.
Price, $61.20.
The "Dancing Dervish" has been a familiar character to readers ef far Eastern tales, although the Western mind cannot well grasp
41