62 THE ADVENTURES OF PRINCE HEMPSEED.

| PRINCE HEMPSEED’S GRAND THEATRE. |

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Upon this picture were the serait of Zug, Coco,
Counsellor, Chatterbox, Turnspit, Topaz, and Emerald.
Patience was in a corner of the picture; and in the middle
were the two children, each with a wand in hand, as tokens
of command.

The artist, who was a very honest man, had not spared
the light red nor the deep blue upon that splendid piece of
canvas.

All Paris soon became mad after the show belonging to
the two children, who had made such capital actors of a
monkey, a dog, two canaries, a parrot, a magpie, and a
cat.

The people, with great good sense, found this show
much more amusing, natural, and real than the perform-
ance of a tragedy.

What helped considerably to attract the crowd, was the
singular invitation given by the red parrot, who kept up
the constant cry of é Walk in, gentlemen! Walk in, ladies !”
while the magpie shrieked with equal Fapialty, “ A half-
penny! a halfpenny! a halfpenny !”