Disposition of the Characters at the Fall of the Curtain.
| CHERI BOUNCE. | BROWN. | MARY W. | WIDGETTS. | TWILL. |
| R. | L. |
Transcriber’s Note
This transcription is based on pp. 11-19 of Dicks’ Standard Plays No. 1006. The images used in this transcription have been posted on the Internet Archive at:
[ archive.org/details/CoyneLaundress ]
In addition, a microform copy of the same edition, which was made available by the University of California, Davis, was used as a secondary source.
In general, this transcription attempts to retain the formatting, punctuation and spelling of the source text. In a few cases where the quality of the printing made a word or a punctuation mark hard to read, the obvious reading was considered the correct reading without comment. A few changes were made to smooth out some of the inconsistent editing of the source text.
The following changes were made:
- p. 11: (Widgett’s Page and Light Porter)—Changed “Widgett’s” to “Widgetts’”.
- p. 13: since the evening I danced with her at the Casino. (Calls,) Twill!—Changed the comma after “Calls” to a period.
- p. 14: Mary. And your remember how we used to go together to Greenwich—Change “your” to “you”.
- p. 14: law! how we use to laugh to be sure!—Changed “use” to “used”.
- p. 14: and a heap of beautiful thing.—Changed “thing” to “things”.
- p. 15: to wring my heart and mangle my affections like that, (Sobbing.)—Changed the comma after “that” to a period.
- p. 15: (Lays his hands on his bosom.—Added a closing parenthesis for consistency.
- p. 16: you don’t mean to say your agoing to sup here?—Changed “your” to “you’re”.
- p. 16: (Pushes her again into the chair. (Aside.)—Deleted the opening parenthesis before “Aside”.
- p. 17: Enter two WAITERS, L, carrying tray with supper, covered dishes, plates, bottles, &c.—Inserted a period after “L”.
- p. 17: Its only, “Coming, sir, in one minute...”—Changed “Its” to “It’s”.
- p. 17: Pulls a handful of the hair out of the chair-seat, goes to to the chimney-glass—Deleted the second “to” after “goes”.
- p. 17: You’ve particular business with him.—Changed the period to a question mark.
- p. 18: Cheri. Oh, you droll wretch, you’ve ten times funnier—Changed “you’ve” to “you’re”.
- p. 18: Mary. There’s no bread, my good fellow—Added a period to the end of the sentence.
- p. 18: Mary (Helps Mdlle. Cheri Bounce.)—Inserted a period after the character title “Mary”.
- p. 18: Marg. Celery, waiter.—Changed “Marg.” to “Mary.”