Maria Thompson Daviess 
Blue-grass and Broadway [EPUB ebook] 

The need of a large sum of money in a great hurry is the root of many noble ambitions, in whose branches roost strange companies of birds, pecking away for dollars that grow – or do not – on bushes. And it was in such a quest that Miss Patricia Adair of Adairville, Kentucky, lit upon a limb of life beside Mr. Godfrey Vandeford of Broadway, New York. Their joint endeavors made a great adventure. There’s nothing to it, Pop; either pony girls will have to grow four legs to cut new capers, somebody will have to write a play entitled ‘When Courtship Was in Flower, ‘ requiring flowered skirts ten yards wide with a punch in each furbelow, or we go out of the theatrical business, said Mr. Vandeford, as he shuffled a faint, violet-tinted letter out of a pile of advertising posters emblazoned with dancing girls and men, several personal bills, two from a theatrical storage house and one from an electrical expert, leaned back in his chair, and prepared to open the violet communication. "We dropped twenty thousand cool on ‘Miss Cut-up, ‘ and those sixteen pairs of legs cost us fifteen hundred a week