Produced by Paul Haxo with special thanks to the Library of Congress and the Internet Archive.
JOHN MADDISON MORTON, (_Member of the Dramatic Authors' Society_),
Lend me Five Shillings, Three Cuckoos, Catch a Weazel, Where there's a Will there's a Way, John Dobbs, A Most Unwarrantable Intrusion, Going to the Derby, Your Life's in Danger, Midnight Watch, Box and Cox, Trumpeter's Wedding, Done on Both Sides, Poor Pillicoddy, Old Honesty, Young England, King and I, My Wife's Second Floor, Who do they take me for? The Thumping Legacy, Milliners' Holiday, Wedding Breakfast, Irish Tiger, Attic Story, Who's the Composer? Who's my Husband? Slasher and Crasher, Prince for an Hour, Away with Melancholy, Waiting for an Omnibus, Betsy Baker, Who Stole the Pocket-Book? Two Bonnycastles, From Village to Court, Grimshaw, Bagshaw, and Bradshaw, Rights and Wrongs of Women, Sent to the Tower, Our Wife, Brother Ben, Take Care of Dowb--, Wooing One's Wife, Margery Daw, The Double-Bedded Room, the "Alabama," Drawing Rooms, Second Floors, and Attics, &c. &c.
LONDON: | NEW YORK: SAMUEL FRENCH, | SAMUEL FRENCH & SON, PUBLISHER, | PUBLISHERS, 89, STRAND. | 38, EAST 14TH STREET.
_First performed at the Royal St. James Theatre_ (_Under the management of Mr. Benjamin Webster_) _On Thursday, 6th October, 1864._
MR. CHRISTOPHER LARKINGS Mr. H. J. MONTAGUE.
MRS. LARKINGS Miss WENTWORTH. ----- MODERN COSTUMES. ----- _Time in Performance--One Hour._
SCENE.--_An Apartment in the house of Mrs. Colonel Carver at Stow-on-the-Wold, fire-place in C., doors, R. and L. of it; another door R. 2. E.; a sofa, L.; at L. a window; table, C., with writing materials; chairs, &c., &c._
_DAVID in livery and wearing a large wedding favour, is seated at little table, writing._
DAVID. Let me see what I ha' written! (_reading letter_) "Dear Cousin Jane, I write this from the little town of Stow-on-the-Wold, in Gloucestershire--last week the population amounted to 2719, but as soon as master and me arrived, it suddenly shot up to 2721--the church bells have been ringing all the morning in honour of my master's marriage with Miss Caroline Anastasia Sophia Elizabeth Carver, which is now being solemnized"--(_noise of shouting and hurrahing heard_) hey-day! (_jumps up and looks out of window_) it be all over, and here comes the bride and bridegroom! (_shouts repeated--DAVID, in his enthusiasm waving his arm out of the window and hurrahing with all his might, then coming down_) Poor master! he's gone and done it now, and no mistake! (_listening_) Here comes the wedding party--I must finish my letter to Cousin Jane by-and-bye! (_putting letter in his pocket_)