{"1": {"fulltext": "488G\\nFrench s International Copyrighted (in Eng;land, her Colonit-\\nand the United States) Edition of the Works\\nof the Best Autliors.\\n\u00e2\u0082\u00ac\u00e2\u0082\u00acC\u00e2\u0082\u00ac\u00e2\u0082\u00ac\u00e2\u0082\u00ac\u00e2\u0082\u00ac\u00e2\u0082\u00ac\u00e2\u0082\u00ac\u00e2\u0082\u00ac\u00e2\u0082\u00ac\u00e2\u0082\u00ac\u00e2\u0082\u00ac\u00e2\u0082\u00ac\u00e2\u0082\u00ac\u00e2\u0082\u00ac\u00e2\u0082\u00ac\u00e2\u0082\u00ac\u00e2\u0082\u00ac\u00e2\u0082\u00ac\u00e2\u0082\u00ac\u00e2\u0082\u00ac\\nR 5177\\nP3\\n900\\nopy 1 25 1900 No. 30.\\ni S air of.\\nI Knickerbockers\\nEDEN PHILLPOTTS\\nCopyright, 1900, by T. H. French\\ni 351901)\\nZ PRICE 25 CENTS\\nLondon\\nSAMUEL FRENCH, Ltd,\\nPUBLISHERS\\n89 STRAND\\nAmateurs are not allowed to produce this play without\\npayment of the authors royalty. All inquiries concern-\\ning same should be addressed to the publishers. d,\\nNew York\\nSAMUEL FRENCH\\nPUBLISHER\\n26 W 22D Street", "height": "3559", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "pairofknickerboc00phil_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "FRENCH S STANDARD DRAMA.\\nPrice 15 Cents each.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Bound Volumes $1.25.\\nVOL. I.\\nX Ion\\n9 Fazio\\na The Lady of Lyons\\n4 Richelieu\\n5 The Wife\\n6 The Honeymoon\\n7 The School for Scandal\\n8 Money\\nVOL. II.\\n9 The Stranger\\n10 Grandfather Whitehead\\n11 Richard III\\n12 Love i Sacrifice\\n13 The Gameiter\\n14 A Cure for the Heartache\\n16 The Hunchback\\n16 Don Caesar de Baian\\nVOL. III.\\n17 The Poor Gentleman\\n18 Hamlet\\n19 Charlei II\\n20 Venice Preserved\\nSI Pizarro\\nS3 The Love Chase\\n93 Othello\\n24 Lend me Five Shillings\\nVOL. IV.\\n25 Virglnius\\n26 King of the Commons\\n27 London Assurance\\n28 The Rent Day\\n29 Two Gentlemen of Verona\\nSO The Jealous Wife\\n81 The Rivals\\n39 Perfection\\nVOL. V. [Debts\\n3.^ A New Way to Pay Old\\n34 Look Before You Leap\\n35 King John\\n36 Nervous Man\\n37 Damon and Pvthias\\n38 Clandestine Marriage\\n39 William Tell\\n40 Day after the Wedding\\nVOL. Vf.\\n41 Speed the Plough\\n49 Romeo and Juliet\\n43 Feudal Times\\n44 Charles the Twelfth\\n45 The Bride\\n46 The Follies of a Night\\n47 Iron Chest [Fair Lady\\n48 Faint Heart Never Won\\nVOL. VIL\\n49 Road to Ruin\\nCO Macbeth\\n61 Temper\\n69 Evadne\\n63 Bertram\\n64 The Duenna\\n65 Much Ado About Nothing\\n66 The Critic\\nVOL. VIII.\\n67 The Apostate\\n68 Twelfth Night\\n69 Brutus\\n60 Simpson Co\\n61 Merchant of Venice\\n69 Old Heads* Young Hearts\\n63 Mountaineers [riage\\n64 Three Weeks after Mar-\\nVOL. IX.\\n65 Love\\n66 As You Like It\\n67 The Elder Brother\\n68 Werner\\n69 Glsippus\\n70 Town and Country\\n71 King Lear\\n72 Blue Devils\\nVOL. X.\\n78 Henry VIII\\n74 Married and Single\\n75 Henry IV\\n76 Paul Pry\\n77 Guy Mannering\\n78 Sweethearts and Wifes\\n79 Serious Family\\n60 She Stoops to Conquer\\nVOL. XI.\\n81 Julius Cajsar\\n82 Vicar of Wakefield\\n83 Leap Y^ear\\n84 The Catspaw\\n85 The Passing Cloud\\n86 Drunkard\\n87 Rob Rov\\n88 George Barnwell\\nVOL. xn.\\n89 Ingomar\\n90 Sketches in India\\n91 Two Friends\\n9i Jane Shore\\n93 Corsican Brothers\\n94 Mind your own Business\\n95 Writing on the Wall\\n96 Heir at Law\\nVOL. xin.\\n97 Soldier s Daughter\\n98 Douglas\\n99 Marco Spada\\n100 Nature s Nobleman\\n101 Sardanapalus\\n102 Civilization\\n103 The Robbers\\n104 Katharine and Petruchio\\nVOL. XIV.\\n105 Game of Love\\n106 Midsummer Night s\\n107 Ernestine [Dream\\n108 Rag Picker of Paris\\n109 Flying Dutchman\\n110 Hypocrite\\n111 Therese\\n112 La Tour de Nesle\\nVOL. XV.\\n113 Ireland As It Is\\n114 Sea of Ice\\n115 Seven Clerks\\n116 Game of Life\\n117 Forty Thieves\\n1\\nBryan Boroihme\\n119 Romance and Reality\\n120 Ugolino\\nVOL. XVI.\\n199 Miller and his Men\\n200 Aladdin\\nVOL. XXVI.\\n201 Adrienne the Actress\\n202 Undine\\n203 Jesse Brown\\n204 Asmodeus\\n205 Mormons\\n206 Blanche of Brandywine\\n207 Viola\\n208 Deseret Deserted\\nVOL. XXVII.\\n209 Americans in Paris\\n210 Victorine\\n211 Wizard of the Wave\\n212 Castle Spectre\\n213 Horse-shoe Robinson\\n214 Armand, Mrs. Mowatt\\n215 Fashion, Mrs. Mowatt\\n216 Glance at New York\\nVOL. XXVIIl,\\n217 Inconstant\\n218 Uncle Tom s Cabin\\n219 Gnide to the Stage\\n220 Veteran\\n221 Miller of New Jersey\\n222 Dark Hour before Dawn\\n223 Midsum rNight sDream\\n[Laura Keene s Edition\\n224 Art and Artifice\\nVOL. XXIX.\\n225 Poor Young Man\\n226 Ossawattomie Brown\\n227 Pope of Rome\\n228 Oliver Twist\\n229 Pauvrette\\n230 Man in the Iron Mask\\n231 Knight of Arva\\n232 Moll Pitcher\\nVOL. XXX.\\n233 Black Eyed Susan\\n234 Satan in Paris\\n235 Rosina Meadows [ess\\n236 West End, or Irish Heir-\\n237 Six Degrees of Crime\\n238 The Lady and the Devil\\n239 Avenger, or Moor of Sici-\\n240 Masks and Faces [ly\\n(French s Standard Drama Continued on jd page q/G\\n121 The Tempest\\n122 The Pilot\\n123 Carpenter of Rouen\\n124 King s Rival\\n125 Little Treasure\\n126 Dombey and Son\\n127 Parents and Guardians\\n128 Jewess\\nVOL. XVII.\\n129 Camille\\n130 Married Life\\n131 Wenlock of Wenlock\\n132 Rose of Ettrlckvale\\n133 David Copperfield\\n134 Aline, or the Rose of\\n135 Pauline [Killarney\\n136 Jane Eyre\\nVOL. XVIII.\\n137 Night and Morning\\n138 ^thiop\\n139 Three Guardsmen\\n140 Tom Cringle\\n141 Henriette, the Forsaken\\n142 Eustache Baudin\\n143 El-nest Maltravers\\n144 Bold Dragoons\\nVOL. XIX.\\n145 Dred, or the Dismal\\n[Swamp\\n146 Last Days of Pompeii\\n147 Esmeralda\\n148 Peter Wilkins\\n149 Ben the Boatswain\\n160 Jonathan Bradford\\n151 Retribution\\n152 Minerali\\nVOL. XX.\\n153 French Spy\\n154 Wept of VVish-ton Wish\\n155 Evil Genius\\n156 Ben Bolt\\n167 Sailor of France\\n158 Red Mask\\n159 Life of an Actress\\n160 Wedding Day\\n[Moscow\\nVOL. XXI.\\n161 All s Fair in Love\\n162 Hofer\\n163 Self\\n164 Cinderella\\n165 Phantom\\n166 Franklin\\n167 The Gunmaker of\\n168 The Love of a Prince\\nVOL. XXII.\\n169 Son of the Night\\n170 Rory O More\\n171 Golden Eagle\\n172 Rienzi\\n173 Broken Sword\\n174 Rip Van Winkle\\n175 Isabelle\\n176 Heart of Mid Lothian\\nVOL. XXIII.\\n177 Actress of Padua\\n178 Floating Beacon\\n1*9 Bride of Lammermoor\\n180 Cataract of the Ganges\\n181 Robber of the Rhine\\n182 School of Reform\\n183 Wandening Boys\\n184 Mazeppa\\nVOL. XXIV.\\n185 Voung New York\\n186 The Victims\\n187 Romance after Marriage\\n188 Brigand\\n189 Poor of New York\\n190 Ambrose Gwinett\\n191 Raymond and Agnes\\n192 Gambler s Fate\\nVOL. XXV.\\n193 Father and Son\\n194 Massaniello\\n195 Sixteen String Jack\\n196 Youthful Queen\\n197 Skeleton Witness\\n198 Jnnkeeper of Abbeville\\nVOL. XXXI.\\n241 Merry Wives of Windsor\\n242 Mary s Birthday\\n243 Sh.indy Maguire\\n244 Wild Oats\\n245 Michael Erie\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0:46 Idiot Witness\\n247 Willow Copse\\n248 People s Lawver\\nVOL. XXkiL\\n249 The Boy Martyrs\\n250 Lucretia Borgia\\n251 Surgeon of Paris\\n252 Patrician s Daughter\\n253 Shoemaker of Toulouse\\n254 Momentous Question\\n255 Love and Loyalty\\n1256 Robber s Wi fe\\nVOL. XXXIII.\\n257 Dumb Girl of Genoa\\n258 Wreck Ashore\\n259 Clari\\n260 Rural Felicity\\n261 Wallace\\n262 Madelaine\\n263 The Fireman\\n264 Grist to the Mill\\nVOL. XXXIV.\\n265 Two Loves and a Life\\n266 Annie Blake\\n267 Steward\\n268 Captain Kyd\\n269 Nick of the Woods\\n270 Marble Heart\\n271 Second Love\\n272 Dream at Sea\\nVUL. XXXV.\\n273 Bre. ich of Promise\\n274 Review\\n275 Lady of the Lake\\n276 Still Water Runs Deep\\n277 The Scholar\\n278 Helping Hands\\n279 Faust and Marguerite\\n280 Last M.sn\\nVOL. XXXV r.\\n281 Belle s Stratagem\\n282 Old and Young\\n283 Raffaella\\n284 Ruth Oakley\\n285 British Slave\\n286 A Life s Ransom\\n287 Giralda\\n28S Time Tries All\\nVOL. XXXVIL\\n289 Ella Rosenburg\\n290 Warlock of the Glen\\n291 Zelina\\n292 Beatrice\\n293 Neighbor Jack wood\\n294 Wonder\\n295 Robert Emmet\\n296 Green Bushes\\nVOL. XXXVIII.\\n297 Flowers of the Forest\\n298 A Bachelor of Arts\\n299 The Midnight Banquet\\n300 Husband of an Hour\\n301 Love s Labor Lost\\n302 Naiad Queen\\n.303 Caprice\\n304 Cradle of Liberty\\nVOL. XXXIX.\\n305 The Lost Ship\\n306 Country Squire\\n307 Fraud and its Victims\\n308 Putnam\\n309 King and Deserter\\n310 La Fiammina\\n311 A Hard Struggle\\n312 Gwinnette Vaughan\\nVOL. XL.\\n313 The Love Knot [Judge\\n314 Levater, or Not a Bad\\n315 The Noble Heart\\n316 Coriolanus\\n317 The Winter s T.ale\\n318 Eveleen Wilson\\n319 Ivanhoe\\n320 Jonathan in England\\nover.)\\nSAMUEL FRENCH, 26 West 22d Street, New York City.\\nNew and Explicit Descriptive Catalogue Mailed Free on Request.", "height": "3684", "width": "1998", "jp2-path": "pairofknickerboc00phil_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "A\\nPAIR OF KNICKERBOCKERS\\nr*\\nBY\\nEDEN PHILLPOTTS\\nAuthor of A Breezy Morning. Part Author of A Golden\\nWedding, The Counsellor s Wife, Etc.\\nCopyright, 1900, i!y T. H. French\\nNew York\\nSAMUEL FREXCH\\nPUBLISHER\\n26 WEST 22D STREET\\nLondon\\nSAMUEL FREXCH,\\nPUBLISHERS\\n89 STRAND\\nLtd,", "height": "3533", "width": "2013", "jp2-path": "pairofknickerboc00phil_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "Produced at St. George s Hall, London,\\nDecember 26th, 1899.\\nI i-:; Cokes Rs\\nronvdfsd t?\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0\u00e2\u0096\u00a0DERDiViSiON:,\\nAUG 3 1900\\nCHAEACTERS.\\nMr. Melrose Mr. W. G. Elliott.\\nMrs. Melrose, Miss Ruth Maitl and.", "height": "3533", "width": "2013", "jp2-path": "pairofknickerboc00phil_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "A PAIR OF KNICKERBOCKERS.\\nScene. A pretty morning-room.\\n(Mr. Melrose and Mrs. Melrose discovered at centre.\\nHe Juts her face between his hands and is kissing\\nher steadily, first on one cheek, then on the other, as\\ncur tain rises. She has a letter ichich she carries\\nheld in her hand behifid her. She wears a pretty\\nblouse and serge skirt. He wears tweed shooting-coat\\nand knickerbockers made of same material.)\\nMrs. M. That ll do, Harry That ll do You ll\\nsmother me.\\nMr. M. Well, my sweetheart, to be smothered\\nwith kisses is a very jolly death, I believe.\\nMrs. M. {escaping from him) But then I should\\nnever have any more. We ve only been married a\\nweek yet, and I want you to go on kissing me in\\nmoderation for the next fifty j^ears at least. Be-\\nsides, I only asked for one in payment, {holding up\\nletter)\\nMr. M. Who is it\\nMrs. M. {giving him the letter) Guess!\\nMr. M. My mother, I ll bet!\\nMrs. M. No, mine.\\nMr. M. Yours! What can she be writing about\\nMrs. M. Perhaps she wants to know if I m a good\\ngirl or perhaps she s sending\\nMr. M. Advice. If everybody took your mother s\\nadvice, it would be a happier world, Nelly.\\nMrs. M. But she is old-fashioned, bless her!\\nMr. M. Elderly people ought to be.\\nMrs. M. You re dreadfully behind the times your-\\n3", "height": "3533", "width": "2013", "jp2-path": "pairofknickerboc00phil_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "4 A PAIR OF KNICKERBOCKERS.\\nself, 3^ou old dear. But I shall wake you up before\\nI\\\\^e done with you.\\nMr. M. Never attempt that, Nell! {looking at\\nwatch) By Jove past ten o clock and our walking\\ntour begins to-day. We ve got to be at Tavistock by\\none. that s certain.\\nMrs. M. What a nuisance it is! People oughtn t\\nto ititerfere with a honeymoon.\\nMr. M. Well, rich avints must be humoured. You\\nsee, dear old Dame Featherstone hasn t the privilege\\nof your acquaintance yet, and we shall only be there\\nfour and twenty hours at the outside. She s old-\\nfashioned too, by the way. She s lunched at one\\no clock for over half a centur}^, and if we were late\\nat a meal, it w^ould be worse than not going to the\\nManor House at all. So look sharp!\\nMrs. M. I hope I can do it, Hal I ve never walked\\nten miles in my life before.\\nMr. M. {opening his letter) Doit? Of course you\\ncan. Only put on sensible clothes. You don t want\\na swagger frock for walking, {he opens letter and\\ndoes not look at her as she answers)\\nMrs. M. Yes, quite so something sensible some-\\nthing rational, {aside) He s in the very mood for\\nit! And whatever he thinks, he can t he positively\\ncan t object about a thing like that. It would be\\ntyranny\\n{Exit Mrs. Melrose)\\nMr. M. {reading letter) My dear Harry, I write\\nto congratulate you, for I really think you have done\\nwonders with our sweet Nelly already. Tis but a\\nweek since you were married, and from the tone of\\nmy dear child s first letter I can already see your\\nmasculine influence at work. It is so womanly and\\nhumble and not a syllable about all that modern\\nfolly. (breaking off) Of course not. I knew Nell\\nnever meant a word of it. She only pretended to be\\na New Woman to score off me, because she knew I\\nhated the sight of em. {reads) She always thought\\nher mother behind the times, but with you it was\\ndifferent, and you have evidently banished the last\\nshadow of the nonsense she picked up at the Atalanta\\nClub from certain very undesirable acquaintances.", "height": "3533", "width": "2013", "jp2-path": "pairofknickerboc00phil_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "A PAIR OF KNICKERBOCKERS. 5\\nHer advanced ideas were the foolish whim of a mo-\\nment and we shall hear no more of them now.\\n{breaking off) Of course we shan t! Nell a New\\nWoman! No, she s one of the sweet old sort, thank\\nthe Lord (reads) I have no hesitation in saying\\nthat it is entirely due to Miss Prance (breaking\\noff. Puts letter in his pocket) Ah! that beast of a\\ngirl was responsible for the whole piece of tom-foolery.\\nWhat a woman (shudders) Spends half her time\\nsneering at men and the other half trying to copy\\nem A pioneer she says she is and thinks she repre-\\nsents her sex, whereas in reality she doesn t represent\\nanything but herself. These pioneer women go and\\nmake jolly silly marriages, and then, just because\\nthey ve drawn a blank and got hitched for life to\\nsome out-and-out bounder, they turn round and give\\nup darning his socks and take to damning his char-\\nacter. They fly to pens and ink as we fly to drink,\\nand then write nasty books. That s a girl all\\nover. She marries one brute and thinks he s a fair\\nsample of them all. Then they begin trying to\\nturn the world upside down. They grumble, and\\ngrowl, and agitate, and form leagues, and get up on\\nplatforms and meddle with politics, and go to the\\nVarsity, and turn into Avranglers and doctors and\\neverything but sensible women, and dare to fool with\\na national game like football and think they play it\\n(shudders) And tackle social problems and mind other\\npeople s business and try to save one another and run\\nabout and are devilish busy and devilish miserable\\nall the time. You can t be really angry with -the\\npoor souls you can only be sorry for them, {goes\\nto looking-glass) Do women with decent husbands\\nbehave like this No never. Of course I wouldn t\\nsay it to anybody but myself, but Nelly s married a\\nwholesome sort of chap if nothing more. I ve got\\nany amount of respect for girls when they ll only let\\nme have it. If there were more new wives there d be\\nfewer New Women anyway. Look at Nell (turns\\nivith his back to door and busies himself ivith a cap\\nand knapsack) Will she ever think another moment\\nof the Gospel according to Miss Prance No never\\nagain She s got me. I shall be quite enough to\\noccupy her mind.", "height": "3533", "width": "2013", "jp2-path": "pairofknickerboc00phil_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "6 A PAIR OF KNICKERBOCKERS.\\nEnter Mrs. Melrose. She is clad in a jacket, ivaist-\\ncoat and knickerbockers exactly like her husband s,\\nand made of similar material. Her caj), her stock-\\nings, her shoes, the flou cr in her button-hole are\\nidentical ivith his ou-n. She is a pocket edition of\\nhim.\\nMrs. M. {coming doum behind Mr. Melrose and\\nshoiL ing considerable nei^vonsness aside) I wonder\\nhow he ll take it Sarah Prance said he would kick\\nferociously at fii-st, but finally give way if I was firm!\\nBreak him in at the start or you ll never run in\\ndouble harness. Those w^ere Sarah s very words.\\nNow to break him in {to Mr. M.) Quite ready,\\nHal, when you are\\nMr. M. All right, my little white mouse, {turns\\nround) What! Thunder and Lightning Who are\\nyou\\nMrs. M. {approaching) Yourbetter half, aminot?\\nMr. M. Stand off Don t touch me\\nMrs. M. Can t you recognize your own wife, Hal\\nMr. M. My wife It s one of those pictures out\\nof\\nMrs. M. It isn t anything of the kind. Why oh,\\nthese you are looking at {indicating her knicker-\\nbockers) Merely a rational walking costume.\\nMr. M. Rational If you could see them as I\\ndo, you d go and drown yourself.\\nMrs. M. Well, I m dressed exactly as you are,\\nan 3^10 w.\\nMr. M. And you stand there in broad daylight and\\nare not ashamed to say so I ve never never seen\\nanything more painful outside a comic opera.\\nMrs. M. I thought I d surprise you, Hal\\nMr. M. You thought right You have It s the\\nmost painful surprise I ve had since Common won the\\nDerby in 1891. To think that any woman after she s\\nknown me six months and been actually married to\\nme for a week, should dare to appear before me in\\nknickerbockers\\nMrs. M. We call them divided skirts.\\nMr. M. You may call them what you like thej^ re\\nknickerbockers. D you think I don t know a pair of\\nknickers when I see them What s more, they re", "height": "3533", "width": "2013", "jp2-path": "pairofknickerboc00phil_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "A PAIR OF KNICKERBOCKERS. 7\\na sort of hideous burlesque of the pair I m wearing\\nmyself at the present moment, which makes it worse,\\nif anything could\\nMrs. M. {eagerly) Yes, dear Harry, that s the\\nbeauty of it I got them at Milner s, and expressly\\ndirected that they should be made out of the very\\nsame material as yours because I thought it would\\nbe such a beautiful idea for husband and wife to go\\non a walking tour in clothes made out of the same\\npiece of cloth.\\nMr. M. Oh, you thought that was a beautiful idea,\\ndid you Well, I call it about the most utterly\\ndepraved notion I ever heard of and if you imagine\\nthat I intend to be seen in the open street with you\\ndressed like that, you never made a bigger mistake,\\nMrs. M. I m going to be true to my principles,\\nwhatever you say\\nMr. M. Then you d better go on a walking tour\\nwith your principles, for you Avon t with me not in\\nthose\\nMrs. M. It s a perfectly right and proper costume\\nfor a walking tour.\\nMr. M. It s not a right and proper costume for a\\nmarried woman\\nMrs. M. Nonsense You don t suppose the march\\nof civilization s going to stand still for you, do you\\nMr. M. Civilization may jolly well march where\\nit likes but you re not going to join the march not\\nin those bags, I tell you once for all\\nMrs. M. {crossing and displaying herself to the\\nbest advantage) I suppose everybody knows I ve got\\na pair of legs, don t they\\nMr. M. Yes, but that s no reason why everybody\\nshould see em. The world is quite prepared to take\\nsome things for granted, your legs amongst the\\nnumber. Devonshire is a very respectable and rather\\nold-fashioned county. Devonshire will readily credit\\nyou with the usual number of limbs and ask no ques-\\ntions. But I m not going to have this magnificent\\nmoorland scenery outraged by the spectacle of a mar-\\nried woman in knickerbockers,\\nMrs. M. It s a divided skirt.\\nMr. M. Well, a skirt divided against itself falleth.\\nMrs. M. No, it doesn t not if 3 ou wear braces.", "height": "3533", "width": "2013", "jp2-path": "pairofknickerboc00phil_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "8 A- PAIR OF KNICKERBOCKERS.\\nMr. M. Braces Did you dare to say braces\\nMrs. M. Very pretty ones, too. I look a great deal\\nnicer than jo\\\\x do, whatever you may think\\nMr. M. If you only knew what you did look like,\\nyou d call on the hills to cover you. Brazen woman\\nHave you no respect for your sex or even your dress-\\nmaker Upon my soul, to look at you now makes\\nme wonder whatever I could have seen in you to\\nmarry you at all\\nMrs. M. {approaching) Harry That s the first\\nharsh word IVe ever heard from your lips.\\nMr. M. I speak more in sorrow than anger. Some\\npeople would think it funny and laugh, J think it sad\\nheart-breaking, in fact. If it was possible for me\\nto shed tears, that beastly little waistcoat you ve got\\non would make me do so. A married woman, too\\nMrs. M. You keep harping on that. We ve only\\nbeen married a week, after all.\\nMr. M. Only a week And you go and dispel my\\ndreams of bliss with this nightmare, {taking letter\\nout of his pocket) Here I get a beautiful letter from\\nyour mother, congratulating me on having knocked\\na little sense into your head, and the next minute you\\ncome capering in got up like some serio-comical horror\\nout of a music hall.\\nMrs. M. You needn t be vulgar about it.\\nMr. M. The truth s often vulgar and the truth\\nis that, in that elaborate tom-foolery, you re simply\\nfit to frighten crows and make children cry. {goes to\\nwindow a7id turns his back on her)\\nMrs. M. No, Hal, I shouldn t terrify dear little\\nchildren. They alwaj^s love me.\\nMr. M. You would in those ghastly things. You d\\nmake them bawl themselves into fits and die. And\\nthat s what I feel inclined to do,\\nMrs. M. {impatiently) Rubbish It s men like\\nyou with your selfish, conceited, egotistical twaddle\\nthat make women revolt We Avill not be stamped\\nunder the tyrannous heels of of\\nMr. M. Keep it up\\nMrs. M. I mean to. When I married j^ou I\\npromised to love, honour and obey you and I shall if\\nI can, though I see it s going to be hard. But I never\\npromised to d\u00c2\u00abress as you liked, and I shan t and the", "height": "3533", "width": "2013", "jp2-path": "pairofknickerboc00phil_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "A PAIR OF KNICKERBOCKERS. 9\\nhusband who would criticise his wife s new clothes\\nis a cad, and nothing better.\\nMr. M. Did you say cad Did I understand\\nyou to call me a cad\\nMrs. M. {frighteyied at his manner, sings small)\\nIf I did, you stung me to it. Em sorry\u00e2\u0080\u0094 I didn t\\nmean that, of course. But you said I should frighten\\nlittle children and make the crows cry. It s cruel of\\nyou, Hal It s not like you. And {pitifully\\nstretching out her arms to him) I took such endless\\ntrouble about having them made out of the very same\\npiece of cloth.\\nMr. M. {sitting doivn in aymichair and turning\\nfrom her) Don t stretch out your tailor-made arms\\nto me\\nMrs. M. {turning sharply, as if about to leave the\\nroom) Then I shall go home to mother\\nMr. M. She doesn t want you She s got rid of\\nyou lucky woman\\nMrs. M. Then I shall give up the world\u00e2\u0080\u0094 and\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nand {hysterically) go into a nunnery or something!\\nMr. M. In those D you think a respectable nun-\\nnery would stand those I ll tell you one thing my\\nAunt Featherstone s not going to be petrified and\\nscandalized by this display. I can see her in my\\nmind s eye as you walk up the steps of the Manor\\nHouse\\nMrs. M. She s a lady, I suppose\\nMr. M. Yes a very old one, with a weak heart\\nand strong prejudices. If she saw you like that, she\\nwould feebly drop her double-eyeglasses with the\\ntortoise-shell handle, give one piercing cry of despair\\nand fall back into the butler s arms probably suffering\\nfrom some complicated sort of stroke.\\nMrs. M. I don t suppose she d mind at all.\\nMr. M. Well, the question is, do I mind And I\\ndo. I can t make myself any clearer, so possibly\\nyou ll take the hint.\\nMrs. M. I shall take no hint at all.\\nMr. M. {rising angrily) Then perhaps you ll obey\\na command.\\nMrs. M. Never\\nMr. M. {thoroughly roused) Go and take those\\nthings off, Mrs. Melrose", "height": "3533", "width": "2013", "jp2-path": "pairofknickerboc00phil_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "10 A PAIR OF KNICKERBOCKERS.\\nMrs. M. Mr. Melrose, I shan t\\nMr. M. Say that again\\nMrs. M. I shall not\\nMr. M. It has come to this, then\\nMrs. M. It has. Miss Prance said it would.\\nMr. M. Damn Miss Prance\\nMrs. M. You can t I know you d like to, but\\nyou can t You re all the same. The moment a man\\nobjects to anything, he damns it Miss Prance will\\nbe an angel in heaven a good many years before you\\nare.\\nMr. M. She ll have to put on what she s told then,\\nanyhow. If New Women are going buzzing about\\nthere in rationals, I would just as soon go\\nMrs. M. You may sneer, but you fear Sarah Prance\\nfor all that She knows what you men are She\\nstrips you to your hollow hearts, fathoms your selfish\\nbodies and shallow souls She said you d be nasty\\nabout these clothes, and she was right she said you d\\nbe brutal and she was right slie told me to wear\\nthem night and day, if necessary, till you came to\\nyour senses, and I shall. She said, Break him in at\\nthe start, or you ll never run in double harness.\\nMr. M. By Jove she was right there, too. This\\nis going to be a tandem marriage.\\nMrs. M. With you in front, I suppose\\nMr. M. Where should I be Shakespeare wrote\\nthe truth w^hen he said it was sharper than a serpent s\\ntooth to have a revolting daughter. He might have\\nadded that a revolting daughter makes a dismal failure\\nof a wife.\\nMrs. M. That s wicked of you, Hal There isn t\\na shadow of truth in it. I ve been a good, faithful\\nAvife to you for a week, and you know it\\nMr. M. (looking at her critically) You may be a\\ntolerable wife down to the Avaist but the wife who\\npersists in wearing knickerbockers is only half a wife\\nat best. However, you are going to stake the happi-\\nness of your future married life on this foolery, so\\nthere s an end of the matter, {gets his hat and\\nprepares to go off)\\nMrs. M. Where are you going\\nMr. M. To send a telegram to Aunt Featherstone.\\nShe must at least be prepared. Your divided skirt", "height": "3533", "width": "2013", "jp2-path": "pairofknickerboc00phil_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "A PAIR OF KNICKERBOCKERS. 11\\nwill jDrobably cut m*e off with a shilling, but even\\nthen I don t want to see the old lady destroyed by a\\nnew Gorgon before my very eyes.\\nMhs. M. {aside, amazed) He s giving in he s\\ncrumbling, {to Mr. Melrose) Then you yield, dear\\nHarry, j-ou let your poor little wife have her way\\nMr. M. There s nothing else to do that I can see.\\nIt s merely a question of taste. There s no disputing\\nabout that.\\nMrs. M. {hastening to him and caressing him) My\\nown dearest, best of husbands I knew you would\\nsee it as I do. You re such a big-minded man, really\\nMiss Prance said you d come round if only I\\nMr. M. {not returning caress, but smiling pleasant-\\nly) Ah, an admirable woman I wish I knew her\\npersonally. She must come and spend a week a\\nmonth with us when we ve settled down, {looks at\\nluatch) I shall be back in five minutes. Then we\\nmust really start, {goes to door and looks back, she\\nhas her back turned)\\nMrs. M. {going to knapsack) Don t be long, my\\nown precious one\\nMr. M. {aside) Poor Nelly The only way No\\nmore divided skirts then Rough on her, but it ll be\\na lesson to last a lifetime.\\n{Exit Mr. Melrose)\\nMrs. M. (sifting back m her chair) Oh, what a\\ntriumph What a battle What a victory When\\nI said I should wear them night and day if necessary,\\nhe yielded It broke his spirit. He felt that further\\nargument was useless and so he gave in. I suppose\\nmen all give in sooner or later, if a Avoman can keep\\ntalking long enough. So Miss Prance says, and she\\nknows. Dear, brave Harry A regular honest\\nBriton Once prove to him that he is wrong and he\\ngives way like a lamb. He was hard to convince, of\\ncourse, but then men always are. It takes them twice\\nas long to see the simplest thing as it does us. {rises\\nand walks about) I wonder what people will really\\nthink Not that it much matters what Devonshire\\nrustics care, but still I should feel it rather if anybody\\nmade remarks or laughed. When Sarah Prance first\\nrode her bicyle in Oxford Street they told her to get", "height": "3533", "width": "2013", "jp2-path": "pairofknickerboc00phil_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "12 A PAIR OF KNICKERBOCKERS.\\nher calves out of pawn, and thiu^ like that, (shivers)\\nBut Sarah really is thin and I well, I m different\\nAnd if a girl can show her arms by night and wear\\nlow frocks, why shouldn t she reveal her legs bj^ day\\nand put on a divided skirt Besides, I ve got Harry.\\nI know what my Hal would do if anybody dared to\\nmake a remark. Of course, it s much easier to be\\nindependent and original and new with a husband\\nsix feet high and broad in proportion, (icalks to look-\\ning-glass and pins on cap) What a wretched little\\nskimpy thing a man s hat is There I must get a\\nbit of heather for it presently. And these {hirning\\n7 ound to see herself in the glass) They re very nice,\\nbut not nearly as comfortable as they look. One feels\\nunfinished as if one had forgotten- absurd I shall\\nsoon get accustomed to them, (picks up knapsack)\\nThis goes on behind, I fancy (tries it on awktcardly)\\nNo, that won t do it hurts And it ruins the set of\\nthe coat, (sfojjs suddenly ivith knapsack in her hand)\\nI ll get Hal to carry it. He could easily sling it on\\nsomewhere. Yes, he must, (puts it doiun, then sits\\nin easy chair and tries to pidl her coat over her knees,\\ncrosses her legs and recrosses them. Fidgets and\\nshoivs she is far from comfortable) I wonder if that\\nwas true about Harry s aunt. Surely she wouldn t\\ngo and change her will because I wear modern clothes\\n(brightening up) No, no Hal only said that to\\nalarm me and when old Dame Featherstone sees me\\nat dinner in my new poppy-red glace silk she ll very\\nsoon forget these and make friends.\\n(Rises and goes to ivindoiv ivith her back to door\\nas Mr. Melrose enters. He ivears big straic\\nhat covered ivith floivers the elastic under his\\nchin, and he has put on the skirt of the dress\\nshe has just mentioned; the poppy -red glace\\nsilk. It only reaches half-ivay betiveen his knee\\nand ankle. Waistcoat and coat as before. He\\nis brisk and in splendid spirits)\\nMr. M. Are you ready, sweetheart\\nMrs. M. Quite, my own loved my own my glace\\nsilk Merciful Providence Are you mad\\nMr. M. Mad No, I hope not Not more than\\nother people. What s the matter\\nMrs. M. My new evening dress", "height": "3533", "width": "2013", "jp2-path": "pairofknickerboc00phil_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "A PAIR OF KNICKERBOCKERS. 13\\nMr. M. It doesn t meet by yards behind, but I ve\\ndodged it up with a cricket-belt under my coat. Jolly\\nlight and easy for walking. I knew you d lend it to\\nme till my tailor has time to make me some pretty\\nfrocks. The colour s so jolly, too Ought I to wear\\nthe hat on one side, or straight\\nMrs. M. {blankly) You re not going into the open\\nstreet like that\\nMr. M. Bless you, I m going to walk to Tavistock\\nlike this. If my togs are good enough for you, I m\\nsure your clothes are quite good enough for me. I\\nlike it. See how it flutters when I walk, (strides\\nabout freely)\\nMr. M. Don t, don t, Harry You ll ruin it. It\\ncost thirty guineas.\\nMr. M. Dirt cheap, too I like it, I tell you\\nAnd I like myself in it. The colour suits me\\nMrs. M. What have you got under it\\nMr. M. That s my business.\\nMrs. M, You d never do it. You d never dare\\nMr. M. D you think I ve got less pluck than you\\nhave (puts on his knapsack)\\nMrs. M. But the people the villagers\\nMr. M. They ll think we re a circus. And if any-\\nbody says anything I ll smash them,\\nMrs. M. But Harry oh, good heavens it s mad-\\nness You can t be serious. You look a positive\\nfool\\nMr. M. I know I do. I am a fool Nine men out\\nof ten are fools. If you turned round after every fool\\nyou passed, you d jolly soon have a stiff neck. For a\\nreal fool s trick remember what I did last week\\nMrs. M. You married me\\nMr. M. Exactly Come along Put on your\\nknapsack.\\nMrs. M. I can t It s too heavj^. I thought that\\nyou\\nMr. M. All right {slings her knapsack over his\\nchest and picks up a stout ivalking stick) Just let me\\nload a pipe and then away we ll go\\nMrs. M. {laughing hysterically) Now now, I see\\nIt s a joke a delicious joke you dear funny fellow\\nBut I wish you hadn t chosen my glace silk. Still\\nit s enough to make anybody laugh", "height": "3533", "width": "2013", "jp2-path": "pairofknickerboc00phil_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "14 A PAIR OF KNICKERBOCKERS.\\nMr. M. Laugh Oh, yes, they ll laugh all right\\nThe cows will laugh the sheep will laugh the ducks\\nin the gutters\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the milestones\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the telegraph poles\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nthe fields\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the hills\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the valleys\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the rivers\u00e2\u0080\u0094 every-\\nthing will roar. We re going to fairly convulse the\\nwhole face of Nature\u00e2\u0080\u0094 that s what we re going to do.\\n{lights his pipe) Come on\\nMrs. M. They ll laugh at you\\nMr. M. Or at you Candidly it would puzzle\\nSolomon to say which of us looks the more unutter-\\nable, hopeless lunatic. Separately we should create\\na considerable sensation together we shall\\nMrs. M. Get locked up. That ll be the end of it.\\nNo Christian country s going to stand two mounte-\\nbanks.\\nMr. M. {putting doivn pipe; eagerly) Two\\nDid you say two mountebanks\\nMrs. M. I meant one, of course. Do get out of\\nthat dress like a good boy. I don t want to lose my\\ntemper, but the joke s gone far enough. (Mr. Mel-\\nrose sits down in armchair) Take care\\nMr. M. You have had your way. What more do\\nyou want I ve given in to you I ve agreed that\\nyou shall go out looking like a juvenile Guy Fawkes,\\nand now you turn upon me in this way. It isn t\\nsportsmanlike I m disappointed\\nMrs. M. {getting cross) Oh, don t sit there twad-\\ndling Be a man if you knoW how to be, and take\\noff my dress before you ve ruined it.\\nMr. M. Bless you, no I m going to wear this\\ndanger signal night and day if necessary We must\\ngive and take in married life and keep our tempers\\nand each study to please the other. Everybody s got\\nsome pet tomfoolery. You want to wear the breeches.\\nVery well, you shall but as long as you do, I swear\\nI ll keep on the petticoats, so now you know Hand\\nme the matches, {he takes tq) his pipe)\\nMrs. M. {handing the matches to liim) You mean\\nto threaten then If I take off these clothes, you ll\\nget out of my glace silk\\nMr. M. Certainly I m only anxious to make a\\ndefinite distinction between the sexes, {smokes)\\nMrs. M. Never It s a base, unmanly plot to get\\nme out of my", "height": "3533", "width": "2013", "jp2-path": "pairofknickerboc00phil_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "A PAIE OF KNICKERBOCKERS. 15\\nMr. M. Knickerbockers\\nMrs. M. You shan t I see through you, now.\\nBut it s useless. I ll be true to my\\nMr. M. Knickerbockers\\nMrs. M. My principles if I have to lose a husband\\nfor them. I ll set out all alone over the wild, desolate\\nmoorland with my broken heart and. my\\nMr. M. Knickerbockers\\nMrs. M. (furious) And if I never reach Tavistock\\nalive and am torn to pieces by a wild bull or some-\\nthing\\nMr. M. Which is very probable and nobody\\nwould blame the bull.\\nMrs. M. (stamping her foot) I say, if I lose my\\nlife and am brought back and laid at your feet a poor\\nlittle, lifeless mangled corpse in\\nMr. M. Your knickerbockers.\\nMrs. M. (trembling u ith passion) Coward\\nWretch Oh, you d try the temper of a cherubim\\nI m sick of you and your brutality and your low\\nbuffoonery You re not a man at all I don t know\\nwhat you are Only I know I hate you hate you\\n(Mr. Melrose rises in amazement and puts dowji his\\npipe) hate you, and I m sorry I ever married you\\nand I wouldn t take off these things now, not if you\\nwent down on your knees and prayed me to for a\\nAveek. No power on earth will make me change my\\nmind. I d I d rather be chopped into pieces than\\nyield, (about to go, turns) And I shall go on buying\\ndivided skirts of every shape and colour and size and\\npattern as long as I live, (goes and turns at door)\\nAnd you ll have to pay for them.\\n(Exit Mrs. Melrose, slamming door after her.\\nMr. Melrose sits down in armchair and twists\\nhis moustache. A pause before he speaks)\\nMr. M. And that s the woman who hoped I d go\\non kissing her for fifty years, (pause) If the John-\\nnies at the Sports Club could see me now sitting\\nhere like this\u00e2\u0080\u0094 scored off, sat on, squelched, smothered,\\nsold by a bit of a girl I could pretty nearly pick up\\nand put in my pocket. A chap who rowed in his\\nCollege boat and got his blue for socker. They\\nwere right they said I wasn t a marrying man,\\nreally, (pushes hat bach on his head and pricks his", "height": "3533", "width": "2013", "jp2-path": "pairofknickerboc00phil_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "16 A PAIE OF KNICKERBOCKERS.\\nfinger) Damn the tiling {snatches hat off and\\nflings it toicards door) Girls are all held together\\nwith pins! I believe {sucking his finger) I ll\\nbet those infernal knickerbockers of hers depend\\nupon pins if the truth s known. Every woman s a\\nwalking pincushion and when a man s married his\\ntrouble begins that s true enough. But I didn t\\nknow it began so quickly, {rises and goes toivindoiv)\\nOf course I can t go out into the open air like this,\\nreally I should be packed off to the County Lunatic\\nAsylum before I d gone fifty yards. Quite right too\\nwished they d collared me and sent me there a week\\nago. This is what comes of a man trying to blufiO his\\nwife {ivalks doini stage^ turns, trips over dress and\\nfalls upon the floo?^) Oh, d No, I won t.\\nWhat s the good. Swearing won t help! {sits up,\\nbut makes no attempt to rise) The thing for me to do\\nis to keep cool and approach the position in a calm,\\nphilosophic spirit, {takes out his cigar case) Some-\\nthing must be done The question is what (selects\\ncigar and bites the tip off) I ve promised to love and\\ncherish her and all that and I m going to keep my\\nword whatever she does, {lights cigar) Of course\\nthere are thundering few prizes in the marriage lot-\\ntery I knew that jolly well before I took my luck;\\nand if I ve drawn a blank, which seems pretty evi-\\ndent, it s only what ninety-nine fellows out of a\\nhundred do. And the world goes on just the same;\\nnobody cares, (pause) It s no good sitting here any-\\nway, (tries to get up and fails. Sits doivn again)\\nUpon my soul, you can t blame wretched girls for\\ntrying to wear comfortable bags. It s enough to sour\\nthe whole sex, being tied up like this for life. Fancy\\nhaving to live in a frock! Of course if every girl\\nwore knickerbockers it would be different and I\\nshould be among the very first to say it was a\\nvery sensible idea, (smokes) I m a reasonable man\\nenough and few fellows have got more common sense.\\nIn fact, common sense was about the only thing I\\never had got. But no chap wants to be the husband\\nof a curiosity. And whatever I may think, I know\\nexactly what Aunt Featherstone will (puts h is elbows\\non his knees, his hands on each side of his head and\\nsits, smoking and thinking)", "height": "3533", "width": "2013", "jp2-path": "pairofknickerboc00phil_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "A PAIH OF KNICKERBOCKERS. 17\\nEnter Mrs. Melrose. She still wears ^J^.^^^^^^j\\ncoat but has put on a dark serge skirt bne has\\nbeen crying and holds pocket-handJcerchiefin her\\nMid She looks at Mr. Melrose, w^o does not\\nturn then picks up the hat he has flung down,\\ntouches it itp and puts it on before the looking-glass.\\nMr M. (not turning round) Is that you\\nMrs. M. Ye-yes! What are you doing now?\\nMr. M. Thinking\\nMrs M. a curious place to think m\\nMr. M. Yes and it^s a curious thought I ve got\\nin my mind.\\nMrs M In your mmd\\nMr. m. Yes, my mind. We neednt dispute about\\ntrifles like that. I was picturing dear old Au.it\\nFeatherstone when we arrive.\\nMrs. M. You said she d faint when she saw me in\\nmy knickerbockers.\\nMr M And when she sees me m this led lag\\nchell die She ll just have strength to totter feeb y\\nto her writing desk and make a codicil to her will.\\nThen sheTl pass away from the evil to come.\\nMrs M. a codicil What s that\\nMr M An invention of the devil by which the\\nact of a man s mature judgment may be juggled away\\n;3n his death-bed by the ^f^^il^l i^^^^^^^\\nFeatherstone s case a codicil will mean that \u00c2\u00a32o UUU\\n^vhich her mature judgment has bequeathed to ^om\\niulband will go to brighten up the Home for Supei^\\nannuXd^^^^^ or some rollicking institution of\\n^^^Ate M Well, get up, then, and take off my un-\\nl.^py dress and behave like a sane man. You don t\\nm Honestly, Tve seen more of you already\\nmps T you-vou might observe a slight change.\\nMR What have you done now? Put on a pair\\nS:T No, Harry, Fve-IVe been weak enough\\nto take off the\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the\\nother reason at all\\n2", "height": "3533", "width": "2013", "jp2-path": "pairofknickerboc00phil_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "18 A PAIR OF KNICKERBOCKERS.\\nMr. M. (who has been staring at her) What\\nWhy It s my own Nelly back again My own\\npriceless pearl of a Nell It was a horrible dream\\na hideous nightmare.\\nMrs. M. So s my poor glace silk\\nMr. M. {rising ivith the help of a chair) Get me\\nout of it Lug me out Drag me out Quick My\\nown delicious Nelly and I thought I d lost her\\nMrs. M. Take care You ll tear it to pieces\\nMr. M. You shall have another twenty others\\nDon t attempt to wear this vile thing. It ll trip you\\nup every time you put it on. I was never in such a\\ndress in my life, {getting free of the glace silk) Thank\\nthe Lord\\nMrs. M. {as he caresses her) I only gave way\\nunder protest, Hal\\nMr. M. Never mind the cause The effect is\\ndivine And that stunning affair on your head too\\nBeautiful Jolly different to the brute of a hat I\\nhad on.\\nMrs. M. It s the very same, you silly old thing\\nMr. M. Is it Then for goodness sake take care\\nof the pins\\nMrs. M. But there s one thing I must ask you,\\nsweet Hal Will you say Yes\\nMr. M. Yes yes yes a thousand times Any-\\nthing everything\\nMrs. M. Then do let me keep this little waistcoat,\\nplease {she holds out coat so that he can see the\\niraistcoat)\\nMr. M. (putting his arin round the icaistcoat) You\\nshall keep the waistcoat I like the waistcoat I\\nlove it You shall always wear w^aistcoats you re\\nperfect in em\\nMrs. M. And you don t think Aunt Featherstone\\nAvill go and codicil away your twenty-five thousand\\npounds now, do you\\nMr. M. If she s any eye for the beautiful, she ll\\nmake it fifty thousand. [Mrs. Melrose moves to go)\\nWhere are you going\\nMrs. M. To get the knickerbockers. They will\\njust about fit Farmer Jones second boy.\\n{Exit Mrs. Melrose taking the glace silk)", "height": "3533", "width": "2013", "jp2-path": "pairofknickerboc00phil_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "A PAIR OF KNICKERBOCKERS. 19\\nMr. M. Never Shall a garment that s been\\nsanctified by my wife s precious person adorn the\\nlanky limbs of the second son of Farmer Jones Not\\nif I know it\\nRe-enter Mrs. Melrose with the JcnickerbocJcers.\\nMrs. M. {holding them out to her husband) There\\nthey are I hope the little boy will like them better\\nthan I did\\nMr. M. No, no, I keep these bags. They are\\nsacred. I ve a jolly good mind to have them\\nquartered with my coat of arms.\\nMrs. M. As a painful memento of to-day\\nMr. M. (putting knickerbocJcers on chair) No, as\\nan olive branch of peace\\nMrs. M. As a palm branch of victory, you mean\\nMr. M. Not at all As a, solemn reminder and\\nwarning that my precious godsend of a wife once\\nwore the breeches and\\nMrs. M. Didn t like them {he takes her face be-\\ntween his hands and kisses her, first on one cheek,\\nthen upon the other as he was doing when the cur-\\ntain rose)\\nCURTAIN.", "height": "3533", "width": "2013", "jp2-path": "pairofknickerboc00phil_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3533", "width": "2013", "jp2-path": "pairofknickerboc00phil_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "^r-SEND FOR A NEW DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE.\\n{French i Standard Drama Continued from 2d page of Cover.)\\nVOL. XLI.\\n321 The Rrate s Legacy\\n322 The Charcoal Burner\\n323 Adelgitba\\n324 Senor Valiente\\n325 Forest Rose\\n326 Duke s Daughter\\n327 Camilla s Husband\\n328 Pure Gold\\nVOL. XLir.\\n329 Ticket of Leave Man\\n330 Fool s Revenge\\n331 O Neil the Great\\n332 Handy Andy\\n333 Pirate of the Idea\\n334 Fanchon\\n335 Little Barefoot\\n336 Wild Irish Girl\\nVOL. XLIIL\\n337 Pearl of Savoy\\n338 Dead Heart\\n339 Ten Nights in a Bar-room\\n340 Dumb Boy of Manchester\\n341 BelphegortheMounteb k\\n342 Cricket on the Hearth\\n343 Printer s Devil\\n344 Meg s Diversion\\nVOL. XLIV\\n345 Drunkard s Doona\\n346 Chimney Corner\\n347 Fifteen Years of a Drunk-\\n348 No Thoroughfare ard s\\n349 Peep O Day L^ife\\n350 Everybody s Friend\\n351 Gen. Grant\\n352 Kathleen Mavourneen\\nVOL. XLV.\\n353 Nick Whiffles\\n354 Fruits of the Wine Cup\\n355 Drunkard s Warning\\n356 Temperance Doctor\\n357 Aunt Dinah\\n358 Widow Freeheart\\n359 Fron Frou\\n360 Long Strike\\nVOL. XLVL\\n361 Lancers\\n362 Lucille\\n363 Randall s Thumb\\n364 Wicked World\\n365 Two Orphans\\n366 Colleen Bawn\\n367 Twixt Axe and Crown\\n368 Lady Clancarthy\\nVOL. XLVH\\n369 Saratoga\\n370 Never Too Late to Mend\\n371 Lily of France\\n372 Led Astray\\n373 Henry V\\n374 Unequal Match\\n375 May or Dolly s Delusion\\n376 Allatoona\\nVOL. XLVUL\\n377 Enoch Arden\\n378 Under the Gas Light\\n379 Daniel Rochat\\n380 Caste\\nSchool\\n382 Home\\nDavid Garrick\\n384 Ours\\nVOL. XLIX.\\n.385 Social Glass\\n386 Daniel Druce\\n387 Two Roses\\n388 Adrienne\\nThe Bells\\nUncle\\n391 Courtship\\n392 Not Such a Fool\\nVOL. L.\\n393 Fine Feathers\\n394 Prompter s Box\\n395 Iron M.ister\\n396 Engaged\\n397 Pygmalion Galatea\\n398 Leah\\n399 Scrap of Paper\\n400 Lost in London\\nVOL. LI.\\n401 Octoroon\\n402 Confederate Spy\\n403 Manner s Return\\n404 Ruined by Drink\\n405 Dreams\\n406 M. P.\\n407 War\\n408 Birth\\nVOL. LU.\\n409 Nightingale\\n410 Progress\\n411 Play\\n412 Midnight Ch.irge\\n413 Confidential Clerk\\n414 Snowball\\n415 Our Regiment\\n416 Married for Money\\nHamlet in Three Acts\\nGuttle Gulpit\\nFRENCH S INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHTED EDITION\\nOF THE WORKS OF THE BEST AUTHORS.\\nThe following very successful plays have just been issued at 25 cents per copy.\\nA PAIR OF SPECTACIiES. Comedy In 3 Acts\\nby Sydnky Grundy, author of Sowing the Wind,\\nc. 8 male, 3 female characters.\\nA FOOL S PARADISE. An original play in 3\\nActs by Sydnky Grundy, author of Sowing the\\nWind, Ac. 5 male, 4 female characters.\\nTHE SILVER SHIELD. An original comedy in\\n3 Acts by Sydney Grundy, author of Sowing the\\nWind, c. 5 male, 3 female characters.\\nTHE GLASS OP PASHIOK. An original com-\\nedy in 4 Acts by Sydney Grundy, author of Sowing\\nthe Wind, c. 5 male, 5 female characters.\\nTHE BALLOON. Farcical comedy in 3 Acts by J.\\nH. Darni.ky and Manvillk Fknn. 6 male, 4 female\\ncharacters.\\nMISS CLEOPATRA. Farce in 3 Acts by Arthur\\nShirley. 7 male, 3 female characters.\\nSIX PERSONS. Comedy Act by I. Zangwill.\\n1 male, 1 female character.\\nFASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. Comedi-\\netta in 1 Act by Percy Fend all. 1 male, 1 female\\ncharacter.\\nHIGHLAND LEGACY. Comedy in 1 Act by\\nBrandon Thomas, author of Charley s Aunt.\\n5 male, 2 female characters.\\nContents of Catalogue which is sent Free.\\nAmateur Drama\\nAmateur Operas\\nArticles Needed by Amateurs\\nArt of Scene Painting\\nBaker s Reading Club\\nBeards, Whiskers, Mustaches, etc.\\nBound Sets of Plavs\\nBulwer Lytton s Plays\\nBurlesque Dramas\\nBurnt Cork\\nCabman s Story\\nCarnival of Author*\\nCharade Plays\\nChildren s Plays\\nComic Dramas for Male Characters\\nonly\\nCostume Books\\nCrape Hair\\nCumberland Edition\\nDarkey Dramas\\nDramas for Boys\\nDrawing-room Monologues\\nElocution, Reciters and Speakers\\nEthiopian Dramas\\nEvening s Entertainment\\nFairy and Home Plays\\nFrench s Costumes\\nFrench s Editions\\nFrench s Italian Operas\\nFrench s Parlor Comedies\\nFrench s Standard and Minor Drama\\nFrench s Standard and Minor Drama,\\nbound\\nFrench s Scenes for Amateurs\\nFrobisher s Popular Recitals\\nGrand Army Dramas\\nGuide Books for Amateurs\\nGuide to Selecting Plays\\nHints on Costumf s\\nHome Plays for Ladies\\nIrish Plays\\nIrving s Plays\\nJuvenile Plays\\nMake-Up Book\\nMake-Up Box\\nMock Trial\\nMrs. Jarley s Wax Works\\nNew Plays\\nNew Recitation Books\\nNigger Jokes and Stwnp Speeches\\nParlor Magic\\nParlor Pantomimes\\nPieces of Pleasantry\\nPoems for Recitations\\nPl.iys for Male Characters only\\nRound Games\\nScenery\\nScriptural and Historical Dramas\\nSensation Dramas\\nSerio-Comic Dramas\\nShadow Pantomimes\\nShakespeare s Plays for Amateurs\\nShakespeare s Plays\\nStanley s Dwarfs\\nSpirit Gum\\nTableaux Vivants\\nTalma Actor s Art\\nTemperance Plays\\nVocal Music of Shakespeare s Plays\\nWebster s Acting Edition\\nWigs, etc.\\nI Love\\n[Letter\\nVOL. XLI\\n321 Adventures of\\n322 I ost Child\\n323 Court Cards\\n324 Cox and Box\\n325 Fortv Winks\\n326 Wonderful Woman\\n327 Curious Case\\n328 Tweedleton s Tail Coat\\n(French s Minor Drama Continue J from 4th page of Cover.)\\nVOL. XLIII. VOL. XLIV,\\n337 Sunset 345 Who s To Win Him\\n338 For Half a Million 346 Which is Which\\n339 Cable Car\\n340 Early Bird\\n341 Alumni Play\\n342 Show of Hands\\n343 Barbara\\n344 Who s Who\\nVOL. XLII.\\n329 As Like as Two Peas\\n330 Presumptive Evidence\\n331 Happy Band\\n332 Pinafore\\n333 Mock Trial\\n334 My Uncle s Will\\n335 Happy Pair\\n336 My Turn Next\\n347 Cup of Tea\\n348 Sarah s Young Man\\n349 Hearts\\n350 In Honor Bound [Law\\n351 Freezing a Mother-in-\\n352 My Lord in Livery\\nSAMUEL FRENCI^i, 26 West 22d St., New York City.\\nNew and Explicit Descriptive Catalogue Mailed Pree on Request.", "height": "3621", "width": "2018", "jp2-path": "pairofknickerboc00phil_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "LIBRARY OF CONGRESS\\nFRENCH S MINO\\nPrice 15 Cents each.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Bound\\nt-ep-\\nVOL. I.\\n1 The Irish Attorney\\n2 Boots at the Swan\\n3 How to Pay the Rent\\n4 The Loan of a Lover\\n5 The Dead Shot\\n6 His Last Lees\\n7 The Invisible Prince\\nS The Golden Farmer\\nVOL. II.\\n9 Pride of the Market\\n10 Used Up\\n11 The Irish Tutor\\n12 The Barrack Room\\n13 Luke the Laborer\\n14 Beauty and the Beast\\n15 St. Patrick s Eve\\n16 Captain of the Watch\\nVOL. III.\\n17 The Secret\\n18 White Horse of the\\n19 The Jacobite\\n20 The Bottle\\n21 Box and Cox\\n22 Bamboozling\\n23 Widow s Victim\\n24 Robert Macaire\\nVOL. IV.\\n25 Secret Service\\n26 Omnibus\\n27 Irish Lion\\n28 Maidof Croissv\\n29 The Old Guard\\n30 Raising the Wind\\n31 Slasher and Crasher\\n32 Naval Engagements\\nVOL. V.\\n33 Cocknies in California\\n34 Who Speaks First\\n35 Bombastes Furioso\\n36 Macbeth Travestie\\n37 Irish Ambassador\\n38 Delicate Ground\\n39 The Weathercock [Gold\\n40 All that Glitters is Not\\nVOL. VI.\\n41 Grimshaw, Bagshaw and\\nBradshaw\\n42 Rough Diamond\\n43 Bloomer Costume\\n44 Two Bonnycastles\\n45 Born to Good Luck\\n46 Kiss in the Dark O\\n47 Twould Puzzle a Con-\\n48 Kill or Cure\\nVOL. VII.\\n49 Box and Cox Married and\\n50 St. Cupid [Settled\\n51 Go-to-bed Tom\\n52 The Lawyers\\n53 Jack Sheppard\\nM The Toodles\\n55 The Mobcap\\n56 Ladies Beware\\nVOL. VIIL\\n57 Morning Call\\n58 Popping the Question\\n59 Deaf as a Post\\n60 New Footman\\n61 Pleasant Neighbor\\n62 Paddy the Piper\\n63 Brian O Linn\\n64 Irish Assurance\\nVOL. IX.\\n65 Temptation\\n66 Paddy Carey\\n67 Two i3regories\\n68 King Charming\\n69 Po-ca-hou-tas\\n70 Clockmaker s Hat\\n71 Married Rake\\n72 Love and Murder\\nVOL. X.\\n73 Ireland and America\\n74 Pretty Piece of Business\\n75 Irish Broom-maker\\n76 To Paris and Back for\\nFive Pounds\\n77 That Blessed Baby\\n78 Our Gal\\n79 Swiss Cottage\\n80 Young Widow\\nicul-\\nVOL. XI.\\n81 O Flanniganand theFai-\\n82 Irish Post [ries\\n83 My Neighbor s Wife\\n84 Irish Tiger\\n85 P. P., or Man and Tiger\\n86 To Oblige Benson\\n87 State Secrets\\n88 Irish Yankee\\nVOL. xn.\\n89 A Good Fellow\\n90 Cherry and Fair Star\\n91 Gale Breezely\\n92 Our Jemimy\\n93 Miller s Maid\\n94 Awkward Arrival\\n95 Crossing the Line\\n96 Conjugal Lesson\\nVOL. XIII.\\n97 My Wife s Mirror\\n98 Life in New York\\n99 Middy Ashore\\n100 Crown Prince\\n101 Two Queens\\n102 Thumping Legacy\\n103 Unfinished Gentleman\\n104 House Dog\\nVOL. XIV.\\n105 The Demon Lover\\n106 Matrimony\\n107 In and Outof Place\\n108 I Dine with My Mother\\n109 Hi-a-wa-tha\\n110 Andy Blake\\n111 Love in 76\\n112 Romance under DifiBc\\nVOL. XV.\\n113 One Coat for 2 Suits\\n114 A Decided Case\\n115 Daugh ter [nority\\n116 No; or, the Glorious Mi-\\n117 Coroner s Inquisition\\n118 Love in Humble Life\\n119 Family Jars\\n120 Personation\\nVOL. XVI.\\n121 Children in the Wood\\n122 Winning a Husband\\n123 Day After the. Fair\\n124 Make Y our Wills\\n125 Rendezvous\\n126 My Wife s Husband\\n1 27 Monsieur Tonson\\n128 Illustrious Stranger\\nVOL. XVII.\\n129 Mischief-Making [Mines\\n130 A Live Woman in the\\n131 The Corsair\\n132 Shylock\\n133 Spoiled Child\\n134 Evil Eve\\n135 Nothing to Nurse\\n136 Wanted a Widow\\nVOL. XVIH.\\n137 Lottery Ticket\\n138 Fortune s Frolic\\n139 Is he Jealous?\\n140 Married Bachelor\\n141 Husband at Sight\\n142 Irishman in London\\n143 Animal M.ignetism\\n144 Highways and By-AVavs\\nVOL. XIX.\\n145 Columbus\\n146 Harlequin Bluebeard\\n147 Ladies at Home\\n148 Phenomenon in a Smock\\nFrock\\n149 Comedy and Tragedy\\n150 Opposite Neighbors\\n151 Dutchman s Ghost\\n152 Persecuted Dutchman\\nVOL. XX.\\n153 Musard Ball\\n154 Great Tragic Revival\\n155 High Low Jack Game\\n156 A Gentleman from Ire\\n157 Tom and Jerry [land\\n158 Village Lawyer\\n159 Captain s not A\\n160 Amateurs and Actors\\n161 Promo\\n162 A Faj\\n63 Mrs. C\\n164 Shakes^\\n165 Neptune s i/eieax-\\n66 Lady of Bedchamber\\n67 Take Care of Little\\n168 Irish Widow [Charley\\nVOL. XXII.\\n69 Y ankee Peddler\\n170 Hiram Hireout\\n171 Double-Bedded Room\\n172 The Drama Defended\\n1 3 Vermont Wool Dealer\\n174 Ebenezer Venture [ter\\n175 Principles from Charac-\\n176 Lady of the Lake (Trav)\\nVol. xxiii.\\n177 Mad Dogs\\n178 Barney the Ba.-on\\n179 Swiss Swains\\n180 Bachelor s Bedroom\\n181 A Roland for an Oliver\\n182 More Blunders than One\\n183 Diriib Belle\\n184 Limerick Boy\\nVOL. XXIV.\\n1S5 Nature and Philosophy\\n186 Teddy the Tiler\\n187 Spectre Bridegroom\\n188 Matteo Falcone\\n189 Jenny Lind\\n190 Two Buzzards\\n191 Happy Man\\n192 Betsy Baker\\nVol. XXV.\\n193 No. 1 Round the Corner\\n194 Teddy Roe\\n195 Object of Interest\\n196 My Fellow Clerk\\n197 Bengal Tiger\\n198 Laughing Hyena\\n199 The A ictor Vanquished\\n200 Our Wife\\nVOL. XXVI.\\n201 My Husband s Mirror\\n202 Yankee Land\\n203 Norah Creina\\n204 Good for Nothing\\n205 The First Night\\n206 The Eton Boy\\n207 Wandering Minstrel\\n208 Wanted, 1000 Milliners\\nVOL. XXVH.\\n209 Poor Pilcoddy\\n210 The Mummy [Glasses\\n211 Don t Forget your Opera\\n212 Love in Livery\\n213 Anthony and Cleopatra\\n214 Trying It On\\n215 Stage Struck Yankee\\n216 Young Wife Old Um-\\nbrella\\nVOL. XXVIIL\\n217 Crinoline\\n218 A Family Failing\\n219 Adopted Child\\n220 Turned Heads\\n221 A Match in the Dark\\n222 Advice to Husbands\\n223 Siamese Twins\\n224 Sent to the Tower\\nVOL. XXIX.\\n225 Somebody Else\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2226 Ladies Battle\\n227 Art of Acting\\n228 The Lady of the Lions\\n229 The Rights of Man\\n230 My Husband s Ghost\\n231 Two Can Play at that\\nGame\\n232 Fighting by Proxy\\nVOL. XXX.\\n233 Unprotected Female\\n2.34 Pet of the Petticoats\\n235 Forty and Fifty [book\\n236 Who Stole the Pocket\\n237 My Son Diana [sion\\n2.38 Unwarrantable Int\\n239 Mr. and Mrs. White\\n240 A Quiet Family\\n014 152 529 3\\n(French s Minor Drama Continued on ^d page of Cover.)\\n*3 LiiiieToaaieKins\\n24b A Lover by Proxy [Pall\\n247 Maid with the Milking\\n248 Perplexing Predicament\\nVOL. XXXII.\\n249 Dr. Dihvorth\\n250 Out to Nurse\\n251 A Lucky Hit\\n252 The Dowager\\n253 Metamora (Burlesque)\\n254 Dreams of Delusion\\n255 The Shaker Lovers\\n256 Ticklish Times\\nVOL. XXXIII.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0/57 20 Minutes with a Tiger\\n258 Miralda or, the Justice\\nof Tacon\\n259 A Soldier s Courtship\\n260 Servants by Legacy\\n261 Dying for Lo%-e\\n262 Al.arming Sacrifice\\n263 Valet de Sham\\n264 Nicholas Nickleby\\nVOL. XXXIV.\\n265 The Last of the Pigtails\\n266 King Rene s Daughter\\n267 The Grotto Nymph\\n268 A Devilish Good Joke\\n269 A Twice Told Tale\\n270 Pas de Fascination\\nv71 Revolutionary Soldier\\n272 A Man Without a Head\\nVOL. XXXV.\\n273 The Olio, Part 1\\n874 The Olio, Part 2\\n275 The Olio, Part 3 [ter\\n276 The Trumpeter s Daugh-\\n277 Seeing Warren\\n278 Green Mountain Boy\\n279 That Nose\\n2S0 Tom Noddy s Secret\\nVOL. XXXVL\\n281 Shocking Events\\n282 A Regular Fix\\n283 Dick Turpin\\n484 Young Scamp\\n285 Y^oung Actress\\n286 Call at No. 1\u00e2\u0080\u00947\\n287 One Touch of Nature\\n288 Two B hoys\\nVOL. XXXVII.\\n289 All the World s a Stage\\n990 Quash, or Nigger Prac-\\n291 Turn Him Out [tice\\n292 Pretty Girls of Stillberg\\n293 Angel of the Attic\\n294 CircumstancesalterCases\\n295 Katty O Sheal\\n296 A Supper in Dixie\\nVOL. XXXVIII.\\n297 Ici on Parle Francaia\\n298 Who Killed Cock Robin\\n299 Declaration of Independ-\\n300 Heads or Tails [ence\\n301 Obstinate Family\\n302 My Aunt\\n303 That Rascal Pat\\n304 Don Paddy de Bazan\\nVOL. XXXIX. [ture\\n305 Too Much for Good Na-\\n306 Cure for the Fidgets\\n307 Jack s the Lad\\n308 Much Ado AboutNolhtng\\n309 Artful Dodger\\n310 Winning Hazard\\n311 Day s Fishing [Ac.\\n312 Did vou ev\u00c2\u00abr send your,\\nvol. XL.\\n313 An Irishman s Maneuver\\n314 Cousin F.annie\\n315 Tis the Darkest Hour be-\\n316 Masquerade [fore Dawn\\n317 Crowding the Season\\n318 Good Night s Rest\\n319 Man with the Carpet Bag\\n320 Terrible Tinker\\nSAMUEL FRENCH, 26 West 22d Street, New York City.\\nNew and Explicit Descriptive Catalogue Mailed Free on Request,", "height": "3679", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "pairofknickerboc00phil_0024.jp2"}}