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birth. Humpo, this son, appears: and to do the fairy justice, she certainly 
succeeded in producing a sufficiently hideous gentleman. Humpo now 
discloses a greater calamity under which he has fallen, than even his dis- 
tortion: he isin love! There is a little rural beauty, who has bewitched all 
the neighbourhood ; lawyer, curate, and miller, are all enamoured of her, and 
Humpo has fallen under the general fascination, and shares in the general 
despair. Rose d'Amour, for such is the name her loveliness has brought 
upon her, has chosen secretly for herself, and cares for none of them. The 
miller’s son, young Colin, is the man—and, of course, Colin is not in the 
most enviable position. But the Wizard of the Dell encourages his boy to 
look for a triumph. By the magic girdle, he changes Humpo into a Wolf, 
and bids him watch Rose d’Amour. The Wolf seizes her, and she screams. 
Colin and the Miller, and all the parties interested, rush on to her rescue. 
A struggle follows; the Wizard comes to the aid of his son. The Fairy 
changes ‘Colin and Rose, to Harlequin and Columbine ; and the Miller and 
Grandmother, to Pantaloon and Clown. The Wizard charges his son to 
bring Harlequin’s sword to the “ ivy tower ;” the Fairy bids Harlequin bring 
the magic girdle to her “ rosy bower.” Rose d’Amour is to be the reward of 
whoever succeeds. The pursuit then begins, and, of course, ends in the 
loss of the girdle, and Harlequin’s triumph. 
The pantomime at the Surrey Tuparre, is “ The Golden Goose, or 
Harlequin and the Goblin of the Mine ;” “‘ founded on the popular legend 
Die Goldene Gans, in the Kinder und Haus Marchen of M. M. Grimm.” 
Carl Von Brandencoken, a charcoal burner, has three sons; the youngest, 
Dolph, is a sort of male Cinderella, loaded with all the work of the family. 
The retreat of the charcoal burners is in the Crimson Mountains, at Alter- 
bourg, which is also the scite of the Lake of the Silver Swans, where 
Sunbeam, the Genius of Light, has her domicile. The piece opens with a 
view of this romantic region of firelight and moonlight, where Dolph has 
been set to tend a pile of burning charcoal. His father, and his two brothers, 
Rip and Klaus, are comfortably asleep on a bed of leaves and skins. Dolph, 
weary of long watching, falls asleep, also, at his post. Sunbeam appears on 
the bosom of the lake, and the silver swans lift their heads and exult. He is 
the guardian genius of the Princess Una, the daughter of Maximilian the 
Sixth, Emperor of Oriana, the kingdom of the Gold Mines. Maximilian had 
incensed Swartz, the malignant Goblin of the Gold Mines, by drawing, with 
too unceremonious a liberality, upon his treasures ; and Swartz, in revenge, 
has cast a spell upon the Princess Una—has plunged her into a melan- 
choly, which there is but one hope of overcoming—and that is, by getting 
possession of “a wonderous talisman, a golden goose,” which is “ deep 
buried in Swartz’s dwelling ;” an achievement to be accomplished only by a 
tender, virtuous, and courageous, youth! “ Here are three young men,’ adds 
Sunbeam, “ let me try what I can make of them.’ A mantle descends upon 
Sunbeam, and gives him the appearance of a decripit old man. Carl and his 
two favourite sons awake, and discover Dolph sleeping. He is ungently 
roused up and ordered to get breakfast, which the others eat, giving him the 
fragments. Carl and Klaus begin to replenish the charcoal piles with logs, 
Sunbeam steals forward and implores charity of Rip, is spurned away, and 
goes out threatening vengeance, which is speedily excecuted, for when Rip 
casts a log upon the pile, a flash darts out from it and burns his face. Sun- 
beam, asking arms of Klaus, is alike repelled, which is requited by the same 
punishment, and Klaus is also taken out by his father, greatly astonished at — 
this double accident, to the doctor. Sunbeam now tries the sensibility of © 
Dolph, the youngest son. Dolph tells the old man his store is scanty, © 
but such as it is, he is welcome to it. Sunbeam replies that he has long © 
sought a heart like his, and having found it, will give it the reward it merits. 
Sunbeam discloses himself Mm all his glory, and tells Dolph he his destined 
“to win a throne and wife.” He bids him seek the Golden Goose in the 
