The Great Frozen Sea: A Personal Narrative of the Voyage of the "Alert"

by Sir Albert Hastings Markham

or

WEEPING BILL.

Founded on the celebrated Ingoldsby Legend, “Misadventures at
Margate.”

Written expressly for the occasion by the
Rev. H. W. Pullen.
Scenery by Professor Moss, M.D. Music by Lieut. Aldrich.
Manager: Lieut. May.

Preceded by

Reading	“The Blessed Babies”	Mr. Hunt.
Song	“Fie, for shame”	Mr. Symons.

Characters:

Mr. Brown, an old buffer, slightly green	Commander Markham.
Mrs. Jones, a landlady, slightly cross, but with a keen eye to business	G. Le C. Egerton, Esq.
Jack Robinson; a seafaring man, slightly figurative in his language, and violently in love with Mrs. Jones	Lieut. Giffard.
Weeping Bill, a little vulgar boy, slightly out at elbows, and fairly sharp for his age	Lieut. Rawson.
K 55, the irrepressible Bobby, slightly self-important, and the natural enemy of Weeping Bill	Rev. H. W. Pullen.

Scenes 1 and 3	The Jetty at Margate.
Scenes 2 and 4	Mrs. Jones’s lodgings.

To commence at 7.30 precisely.
God save the Queen.
Messrs. Giffard and Symons, Printing office, Trap Lane.