. St. Nicholas [serial]. lashedit upon her face. And that was all he did, forMme. Tussaud had touched him with hermagic cane. Immovable he stood, withoutsense or feeling, holding his lantern in his out-stretched hand. One! said Mme. Tussaud, under herbreath, and also stood quite still, for she hearda voice in the rear singing softly: I ve got a pal, A reglar out-an-outer;She s a dear good gal— I 11 tell yer all about s many years since fust we met— The singer, a jovial young costermonger re-turning home after a jolly evening spent withfriends, stopped short and cried : Alio ! Ho, I say !
. St. Nicholas [serial]. lashedit upon her face. And that was all he did, forMme. Tussaud had touched him with hermagic cane. Immovable he stood, withoutsense or feeling, holding his lantern in his out-stretched hand. One! said Mme. Tussaud, under herbreath, and also stood quite still, for she hearda voice in the rear singing softly: I ve got a pal, A reglar out-an-outer;She s a dear good gal— I 11 tell yer all about s many years since fust we met— The singer, a jovial young costermonger re-turning home after a jolly evening spent withfriends, stopped short and cried : Alio ! Ho, I say ! Ere s a lark ! Wot sthe row, bobby ? It was not destined that he should be in-formed. The magic cane had touched him,and he stood stock-still, with a vacant smile onhis face. Two ! said Mme. Tussaud, hurrying backto her celebrities. I need recruits, stalwartmen, resolute and stout, she said Thumb darted forward. Not you, Tom;you could not perform the work. Cromwell forone; and, Loushkin, you come, <A WINSOME LITTLE WENCH! SAID HENRY VIII, AS HE CHUCKED LUCY UNDER THE CHIN. Vol. XXXI.—19. 145 146 A COMEDY IN WAX. [Dec. The giant and Cromwell followed immediately, and, in obedience to herinstructions, carried the inanimate forms of thepoliceman and the young man of the periodinto the building, she showing the way with thepolicemans bulls-eye lantern, of which she hadtaken possession. Then she passed out of thegates again, taking her recruits with her. Shekept them busy, for every minute or two theycame back, bearing the forms of various humanbeings who had been deprived of sense andmotion by the touch of the magic cane. Alto-gether thirteen substitutes were collected, and,under Mme. Tussauds direction, were carriedinto the show and placed where the celebritiesshe had revived had previously sat or they were covered with the calico shroudswhich had enveloped the abstracted celebrities,the hall presented precisely the same appear-
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