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Excerpt from The Life and Adventures of Edmund Kean, Tragedian: 1787-1833 Now little Edmund Carey, amongst a crowd of other lads, represented an attendant spirit on the sisters three. His personation was, however, limited to a single night, for whilst he and his fellow-demons stood in a row one before the other at the mouth of a cave, preparatory to scampering round the cauldron, he either accidentally or intentionally made a forward step which he was unable to recover. He therefore fell against the demon in front of him, who in turn knocked down his next neighbour, and he doing likewise, they tumbled one upon the other until the whole wicked company lay prostrate. Confusion followed this unrehearsed action; the audience tittered, and the scene was spoiled. Hippen, who narrates the anecdote, says Kemble te garded the occurrence as a breach of discipline. At the conclusion of the act the chief offender was brought before him, and little Carey answered his reproaches by merely remarking, This was the first time he had performed in tragedy. 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.