Behind the Footlights, or the Stage as I Knew It (Classic Reprint)
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Day, W. C.) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
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Excerpt from Behind the Footlights, or the Stage as I Knew It When a tradesman opens a new shop, and is anxious to dispose of his goods, his first act is to issue to his patrons, the public, such a catalogue of his wares as will ensure the commodities being regarded in the most favourable light. He warrants everything. This rule applies with equal force to the mercantile professional, be he lawyer, doctor, divine, or simple author or artist. It behoves him to recommend his work by some cunningly-contrived . device, and to affix to his nostrum an attractive label, so as to induce the patient to swallow the potion cheerfully. And where, let me ask, can a dealer hit upon, and offer to his customer a more enticing trap-bait than in the innocent and ingenuous title Truth ? Secure under that segis, he can draw upon his imagination from St. Paul´s to the Antipodes, and set down taradiddle after taradiddle with the impunity of the infallible Pope of Rome. The grocer warrants his roasted coffee free from chicory, and the confiding housewife at once plumps down upon the counter of the tea warehouse one shilling and eightpence, for sixteen ounces of the fifteenpenny mulatto-coloured abomination, with the docility of a lamb. The dairyman pops an additional penny per quart upon his "guaranteed pure milk," and the unsuspicious invalid imbibes the skim-wash with an inward assurance of its bodily nourishment and support. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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