. Christmas cheer [electronic resource]: in three courses, more than ordinary ones, and where every guest will get his dessert, and a taste of those choice spirits, "that cheer but not inebriate," . tch or clock will go up. Watches should beregulated by Sun Dials; but if none are bandy, thenthe mean time of the gin-shop clocks in Seven Dialswill answer all the purpose. At the close of thetheatres, the illuminated one in the Strand, oppositeWaterloo Bridge, is generally G minutes to T. [ 39 ] A NEW DRAMA ON AN OLD MODEL, TOM THE TURNCOCK; OR, THE FIKELADDER OF LIFE. (Adapted to a mixed company.
. Christmas cheer [electronic resource]: in three courses, more than ordinary ones, and where every guest will get his dessert, and a taste of those choice spirits, "that cheer but not inebriate," . tch or clock will go up. Watches should beregulated by Sun Dials; but if none are bandy, thenthe mean time of the gin-shop clocks in Seven Dialswill answer all the purpose. At the close of thetheatres, the illuminated one in the Strand, oppositeWaterloo Bridge, is generally G minutes to T. [ 39 ] A NEW DRAMA ON AN OLD MODEL, TOM THE TURNCOCK; OR, THE FIKELADDER OF LIFE. (Adapted to a mixed company.) CHARACTERS. lord Voracious Noheart Mb. DIDDEAR. The Hon. Epping Forest (his nephew) Mr. J. WEBSTER. Charles (his friend) Mr. KINLOCH. Tom the Turncock Mr. G. WILD. Bill Tugskull (a Waterman, but no Teetotaller) Mr. LAMBERT. Highlow Jack (a mysterious blackguard) Mr. SEARLE. Gentlemen, Scamps, &c. Lady Amelia Southdown {ivard of Lord Noheart) Miss HARDING. Sally Green (a water-cress girl) Miss LEBATT. Servants, Women, &c. ACT I. Scexe I.—The Swan Public House, with View ofHungerford Pier. A real lamp a-light. Bill Tvg-slcull is discovered with some watermen, smoking anddrinking. w. All. Bravo ! hravo ! Bill. Them s my views. The common wlierryrowd Ijv an honest man, is better than a gilt steamerwith, a dissolute engineer. 40 A BOWL OF PUNCH. Voices, without. Hurrah, Tom ! Enter TOM TURNCOCK. Tom. Mv Jays work is over; and the man whocan enjoy his pipe and heer with a clear conscience,neednt envy the first lord of the land. Bill. Nor the water neither. All. Ha ! ha ! ha ! Very good. A voice without. Water-cresses ! Tom. Tliat s my Sallys voice. I d rather hearher cry water-cresses, than any of the fine airs of theforeign squallcrs at the hopera. Enter Sally.
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