SWANS. (aside, to WOODCOCK, and shaking WOODCOCK’S other hand) Thanks to you, no one suspects mine!
WOOD. And thanks to both of you, (shaking both their hands) I’m going back to Stow-on-the-Wold—that is, if our kind friends assure us that success has crowned “WOODCOCK’S LITTLE GAME!”
Curtain.
[Transcriber’s Note]
This transcription is based on a copy of the Samuel French edition, scans of which have been posted on the Internet Archive at:
[ archive.org/details/MortonWoodcocksLittleGame]
Because of the print quality of the Samuel French edition, an American reprint published by Harold Roorbach in 1889 was used as an additional resource. Scans of the copy held by the Library of Congress are posted at:
[ archive.org/details/woodcockslittleg00mort]
In general, this transcription attempts to retain the formatting, punctuation and spelling of the source text. Variant spellings such as “bran-new” and “trowsers” have been retained as have some inconsistencies in spelling, such as “ball room” vs. “ball-room” and “thank’ee” vs. “thankee”. Some changes were made to correct for printing errors and for minor inconsistencies in formatting, punctuation and spelling.
The following changes were made to the text: