. Gallery of comicalities : . ummer months to at a ball at Islington I first chancd to meet her, She really lookd so nice I couldnt keep my eyes away ;In all my life before I neer saw so sweet a creature, She dancd with me three hours, then fainted quite away. spoken.—She was such a divine creature ! I fell in love with her the momentI saw her. I looked languishing at her, and she did the same at me ; thenshe gave such a sigh—such a heavy one !—you might have heard it! All round the room, &c. My Ellens rather tall, and my Ellens rather thin, too,Her hair is rather sandy, and at singi
. Gallery of comicalities : . ummer months to at a ball at Islington I first chancd to meet her, She really lookd so nice I couldnt keep my eyes away ;In all my life before I neer saw so sweet a creature, She dancd with me three hours, then fainted quite away. spoken.—She was such a divine creature ! I fell in love with her the momentI saw her. I looked languishing at her, and she did the same at me ; thenshe gave such a sigh—such a heavy one !—you might have heard it! All round the room, &c. My Ellens rather tall, and my Ellens rather thin, too,Her hair is rather sandy, and at singing shes au fait, That she should leave me now I think it quite a sin, too,Im sure I shant be happy all the time she is away. SpokcH.—She was an /mangel ! such a natural sort of woman ! She wore abustle—that wasnt very natural, though—it was rather a largish one ; Isuppose, upon a moderate calculation, it would have reached All round the room, &c. 34 2 M 2 GALLERY OF COMICALITIES.—No. CXXXI. JIM C R O W .. How are you massa gemmen, An de ladies in a row,All for to tell you whar Im from,Ise going for to go !For I wheel about an turn about, an do just so,An ebery time I turn about, I jump Jim Crow. In 1836, Mr. T. D. Rice, who had previously appeared at theSurrey Theatre, in Bone Squash Diablo, made his first ap-pearance at the Adelphi, in a farcical Burletta, called A Flightto America; or, Twelve Hours in New York. The sketch,written for him by Mr. Leman Rede, introduced Rice as anigger, Yates as a Frenchman, and Mrs. Stirling as Sally Snow—acoloured belle. Miss Daly, John Reeve, and Buckstone strength-ened the cast. Jump Jim Crow caught the fancy of thetown at once, and the familiar tune was soon to be heard every-where. Rice stayed through the whole season, playing an en-gagement of twenty one weeks, then considered somethingextraordinary. For a long period he performed at the Adelphiand the Pavilion Theatres the same evening, and it was calcula-ted that in so d
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