Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, ill, À Beckett, Gilbert Abbott, 1811-1856 · London : Pub. at the Punch Office · leaf 132
e, as apremium for having stabbed an old cloak by mistake, taken a large sum for what hehas not done, and betrayed the individual who paid for his services. No moneyreturned is, however, no less the motto of the stage assassin than of the stage manager. Though it is certainly the province of the… … frightfully Avell, that on his first entrance he sent all his fellow-performers terrified ofithe stage, threw the whole orchestra into fits by his awful aspect, and, what was worsethan all, scai*ed away the audience. THE MESMERIC DINNER. 99 {Written cxpresdy for the First of April, hut unavoidably…
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