COSTUMES MODERN AND APPROPRIATE.

Scene.—Apartment in Mrs. Duplex's house. Lounge, L.; two chairs, R.; table with writing-materials, and an easy-chair, C.

Mrs. H. (outside, R.) Don't tell me, yeou imperdent thing! Clear out, I tell yeou! Maggie (outside, R.) Faix! not for the likes av yez, at all, at all. Mrs. H. (outside, R.). Yeou won't, hay? We'll see about it. (Enter Maggie, R., followed by Mrs. H., brandishing a broom.) Maggie. Aisy, Mrs. Hartshorn, or it's yersilf will be sent to coort for salt and bathery, sure. Mrs. H. Don't care! If I'm sent to prison for life, I mean to have my orders obeyed. Maggie. Faix, an' it's not yersilf is the lady of the house, at all, at all. Mrs. H. Don't make no difference. Yeou take that broom, and sweep out my room, and be quick about it! Maggie. It's warning I'll give to onct the misthress cooms, Mrs. Hartshorn. Faix! there's a power of work in the house, and a heap of misthresses to order about—bad luck to 'em! Niver mind, I'll swape the room; an', if ye find any thing broke, it's not the fault av Maggie Donovan. (Aside.) Only jist I'll—I'll have one good crack at her chiny vases, so I will.

[Exit L.

[Exit, R.

"Take it up tenderly,

Fashioned so slenderly,

It's fickle and frail."

[Exit, R.

"Is this a dagger which I see before me?"

"In the lexicon of youth, which Fate preserves for a bright manhood,

There's no such word as fail!"

"Off with his head! So much for Buckingham."

"Charge, Chester, charge! On, Stanley, on!"

Situations.

Caroline. Florence.

Rhoda. Mrs. D.

Pollie. Mrs. H.

Katie. Maggie.

R. L.

Curtain.