A Pirate of Parts

CHAPTER I

"Is all our company here?" --MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM.

Yes, he was a strolling player pure and simple. He was an actor by profession, and jack of all trades through necessity. He could play any part from _Macbeth_ to the hind leg of an elephant, equally well or bad, as the case might be. What he did not know about a theatre was not worth knowing; what h...