PUNCH,
OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
Vol. 103.
October 8, 1892.
AT A HYPNOTIC SÉANCE.
SCENE—A Public Hall in a provincial town. The Hypnotist—a tall, graceful, and handsome young man, in well-fitting evening clothes—has already succeeded in putting most of his subjects to sleep, and is going round and inspecting them critically, as they droop limply on a semicircle of chairs, in a variety of unpicturesque attitudes. The only Lady on the platform is evidently as yet in full possession of her senses.
First Female Spectator (to Second). MARIA MANGLES do take a time sending off, don't she?
Second F.S. (also a friend of Miss MANGLES). Yes, that she do—it gives her such a silly look, sitting there, the on'y one with her senses about her!