THE ROYAL PUPPET.
“Here is a representation of a puppet, the movements of which are occasioned by certain strings, which are held in the hands of persons who amuse themselves by pulling first one and then the other according as it may serve their temporary purposes. The funny little figure wriggles about first to one side and then the other just as it strikes the whim of those in whose hands he happens to be, and he is forced when acted on by them to play whatever antics they may deem desirable. One jerk may make the little fellow extend his hand in an attitude of friendship, while the next moment he may be made grotesquely to throw up his foot, as if he would kick down the very thing to which he had the moment before offered his hand, and thus he wriggles about in every sense of the word, the mere puppet of those who possess the power to play upon him. Occasionally the funny little figure is made to take part in a scenic representation, and here we give to our readers a specimen of certain interesting
STATE THEATRICALS.
The subject is chosen from Shakespeare’s Othello, and the following is the cast of the principal characters.”
Othello, by The Puppet.
Iago, by Lord Brougham.
Desdemona, by Hibernia, the Sister Country.
It would be needless and somewhat tedious to print the whole of the well-known tragedy,—showing how Desdemona was wronged, and Othello degraded, by the cunning of Iago.
For Iago and Othello we shall for the sake of verisimilitude insert the names of their representatives, Brougham and the Puppet.
Brougham.—