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`` Of course not , '' added Anderson Crow reflectively . `` It 's a troupe . '' The next morning , bright and early , Mark Riley fared forth with paste and brush . Before noon , the board fences , barns and blank walls of Tinkletown flamed with great red and blue letters , twining in and about the portraits of Shakespeare , Manager Boothby , Rosalind , Orlando , and an extra king or two in royal robes . A dozen small boys spread the hand bills from the _ Banner _ presses , and Tinkletown was stirred by the excitement of a sensation that had not been experienced since Forepaugh 's circus visited the county seat three years before . It went without saying that Manager Boothby would present `` As You Like It '' with an `` unrivalled cast . '' He had `` an all-star production , '' direct from `` the leading theatres of the universe . ''