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ing ground. At last he got a little relief, 

 and straightway visited his Adelphi haunts 

 for a brief space ; but, alas ! how changed 

 from his old roaring, gagging self. It is 

 pleasanter only to remember the days when 

 he could carry through the dullest of plays 

 alone and unassisted before her Majesty at 

 Windsor, when he played up to Miss Murray 

 or Miss Woolgar, scrutinising in detail the 

 whole of the grinning dramatis personce to 

 * try and find a father among 'em ' ; or 

 receiving from Paul Bedford when about to 

 engage w T ith him in mortal combat, the com- 

 forting assurance that he, Paul, was ' seven- 

 teen stun, four pounds and a hounce.' Well 

 might we feel that the gaiety of thousands in 

 town and country had been eclipsed as we 

 stood by his open grave in the very Bromp- 

 ton Cemetery where, eight years before, we 

 had seen him bathed in tears as chief mourner 

 at the funeral of little Munyard, alias 

 4 Jemmy Starlight.' " 



