Elizabeth Eliza said that
Solomon John would have to be a Turk, and they must borrow all
the red things and cashmere scarfs in the place. She knew people
would be willing to lend things.
Agamemnon thought you ought to get in something about the
Hindoos, they were such an odd people. Elizabeth Eliza said you
must not have it too odd, or people would not understand it, and
she did not want anything to frighten her mother.
She had one word suggested by the lady from Philadelphia in her
letters,the one that had "Turk" in it,but they ought to have two
words "Oh, yes," Ann Maria said, "you must have two words; if
the people paid for their tickets they would want to get their
money's worth."
Solomon John thought you might have "Hindoos"; the little boys
could color their faces brown, to look like Hindoos. You could
have the first scene an Irishman catching a hen, and then paying
the water-taxes for "dues," and then have the little boys for
Hindoos.
A great many other words were talked of, but nothing seemed to
suit. There was a curtain, too, to be thought of, because the
folding-doors stuck when you tried to open and shut them.
Agamemnon said that the Pan-Elocutionists had a curtain they
would probably lend John Osborne, and so it was decided to ask
John Osborne to help.
If they had a curtain they ought to have a stage. Solomon John said
he was sure he had boards and nails enough, and it would be easy
to make a stage if John Osborne would help put it up.
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