Master (sharply). What did you say, sir?
Merryman. I said, they'd see it all by-and-by.
Master. Dancing on the tight and slack rope—
Merryman. Prancing on the slight and tack rope—
Master. With a variety of ground and lofty tumbling—
Merryman. With a variety of round and crafty grumbling—
Master. Remember the price. Halloo! (Through a speaking trumpet.) Threepence each is all we ask! Servants and working people twopence!
Merryman. Recollect: be in time. All in to begin! Threepence each is all we ask; but we'll take as much more as you like to give us. All in there! all in! [Exeunt company, to re appear in one minute.
This will give a fair notion of the value of the work. In addition to a series of such helps to education, phrases, to be committed to memory, will be hung round the room. These will be principally for the pantomimists, and will consist of sentences like the following:—"Here we are again! how are you?" "Now, don't be a fool!" "Here's somebody coming!" "I saw him do it, sir!" with other similar ones.