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Also:

The thrilling, masterly, and blood-curdling

Broad-sword conflict

In Richard III

Richard III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mr. Garrick.

Richmond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mr. Kean.

also:

(by special request)

Hamlet's Immortal Soliloquy!

By the Illustrious Kean!

Done by him 300 consecutive nights in Paris!

For One Night Only,

On account of imperative European engagements!

Admission 25 cents; children and servants, 10 cents.

Then we went loafing around the town. The stores and houses was most all old

shackly dried-up frame concerns that hadn't ever been painted; they was set up

three or four foot above ground on stilts, so as to be out of reach of the water

when the river was overflowed. The houses had little gardens around them, but

they didn't seem to raise hardly anything in them but jimpson weeds, and sun-

flowers, and ash-piles, and old curled-up boots and shoes, and pieces of bottles,

and rags, and played-out tin-ware. The fences was made of different kinds of

boards, nailed on at different times; and they leaned every which-way, and had

gates that didn't generly have but one hinge -- a leather one. Some of the fences

had been whitewashed, some time or another, but the duke said it was in

Clumbus's time, like enough. There was generly hogs in the garden, and people

driving them out. ssssssssss

All the stores was along one street. They had white-domestic awnings in

front, and the country people hitched their horses to the awning-posts.

There was empty dry-goods boxes under the awnings, and loafers roosting

on them all day long, whittling them with their Barlow knives; and chaw-

ing tobacco, and gaping and yawning and stretching -- a mighty ornery lot.

They generly had on yellow straw hats most as wide as an umbrella, but

didn't wear no coats nor waistcoats; they called one another Bill, and Buck,

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