Punch, Or the London Charivari, volume 1, Complete
Punch, Or the London Charivari, volume 1, Complete
Various
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With this pleasinginformation, and a sharp dialogue on his favourite subject with the hero, he retires. Here the interest begins; three or four foot-stamps are heard behind;_Jack_ starts--"Ah, that noise, " &c. --and on comes the author of thepiece, "his first appearance here these five years. " He approaches thefoot-lights--he turns up his eyes--he thumps his breast--and goes throughthis exercise three or four times, before the audience understand thatthey are to applaud. They do so; and the p...lay goes on as if nothing hadhappened; for this is an episode expressive of a "first appearance thesefive years. " _Gipsy George_ or Mr. G. Almar, whichever you please, havingassured _Jack Ketch_ that he is starving and in utter destitution, proceeds to give five shillings for a piece of rope, and walks away, aftertaking great pains to assure everybody that he is going to hang himself. Before, however, he has had time to make the first coil of a hempencollar, _Jack_ looks off, and descries the stranger in the last agonies ofstrangulation, amidst the most deafening applause from the audience, whosedisgust is indignantly expressed by silence when he exits to cut the mandown.
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