A Desperate Game: A Comic Drama in One Act

by John Maddison Morton

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A DESPERATE GAME.

A Comic Drama.

IN ONE ACT.

BY

JOHN MADDISON MORTON,

(Member of the Dramatic Authors’ Society),

AUTHOR OF

Box and Cox, John Dobbs, The Woman I Adore, A Capital Match,
Your Life’s in Danger, Who Stole the Pocket Book? Poor
Pillicoddy, Friend Waggles, Where there’s a Will
there’s a Way, The Writing on the Wall, Betsy Baker,
Going to the Derby, My precious Betsy, Slasher
and Crasher, The Two Bonnycastles, &c., &c.

THOMAS HAILES LACY,

WELLINGTON STREET, STRAND,

LONDON.

First performed at the Theatre Royal Adelphi,
on Saturday, April 9th, 1853.

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