What shall we do to-night? or, Social amusements for evening parties. Furnishing complete and varied programmes for twenty-six entertainments (1873)
Dick, William B. (William Brisbane), 1827-1901 · New York, Dick & Fitzgerald · leaf 64
ntly striving to annihilate the others hat. They bangand batter each other for some moments, until they fall backexhausted upon the floor. After a moment one lifts his head veryslowly and cautiously, sits up, and finally rises, and peeps overthe cof&n to see the condition of his prostrate foe… … riG. 30. The stage-manager explains, either before or after the per-formance, that the combatants are disappointed heirs, fightingover a relatives coffin about the terms of his will. Going behind the curtain, we find two chairs turned down,their backs uppermost, upon the floor (see Fig. 31), and…
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