i.—THE LITTLE CROSSING-SWEEPER.
Dramatis Personæ.
| The Little Crossing-Sweeper | By the unrivalled Variety Artist | Miss Jenny Jinks. |
| The Duke of Dillwater | Mr. Henry Irving. | |
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| A Policeman | Mr. Rutland Barrington. | |
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| A Butler (his original part) | Mr. Arthur Cecil. | |
| Foot-passengers, Flunkeys, Burglars. | By the celebrated Knockabout Quick-change Troupe. | |
[Specially engaged; Mr. Punch is sure that he will cheerfully make some slight sacrifice for so good a cause, and he can easily slip out and get back again between the Acts of "Henry the 8th."
[Engaged, at enormous expense, during the entire run of this piece.
Scene I.—Exterior of the Duke's Mansion in Euston Square by night. On the right, a realistic Moon (by kind permission of Professor Herkomer) is rising slowly behind a lamp-post. On left centre, a practicable pillar-box, and crossing, with real mud. Slow Music, as Miss Jenny Jinks enters, in rags, with broom. Various Characters cross the street, post letters, &c.; Miss Jinks follows them, begging piteously for a copper, which is invariably refused, whereupon she assails them with choice specimens of street sarcasm—which the Lady may be safely trusted to improvise for herself.
Miss Jenny Jinks (leaning despondently against pillar-box, on which a ray of limelight falls in the opposite direction to the Moon).
Ah, this cruel London, so marble-'arted and vast,
Where all who try to act honest are condemned to fast!