Captains Wife, No. 1,—Miss Helen Faucit.
Do. No. 2,—Mrs. Yates.
Do. No. 3,—Mrs. Nisbit.
Do. No. 4,—Miss Vincent.
Kitty,—lady of the bed-chamber to Miss Smashaway,—Miss Mordaunt.
Men about town, women ditto, apprentices, guardsmen, police A. 27 and F. 63, attendants, &c. &c. &c. by eminent performers.
Time, rather indefinite.
Scene, always within sound of Bow-bell, and chiefly in Ludgate-hill or Upper Stamford-street.
Act I.—Scene I.
Morning rather misty; St. Paul's striking eleven, as the curtain rises to hurried music, and discovers a haberdasher's shop with plate-glass windows. Snags, Mags, and Poppleton with sundry assistants, their hair in papers; but evidently preparing for business. Enter Jeremiah Scout with a watering-pot; he sprinkles the floor, while the apprentices are arranging their neckcloths. Snags coughs, evincing a recent recovery from influenza. He comes forward, and sings.