SCOTCH, ENGLISH, AN T D IRISH,
Scene : Trauacar, Queen-street. — Enter the managing director of a Northern Steamship Co. — a very important personage in his own estimation — and his umbrella, an article of much more solicitude to him than the lives of his passengers — takes the last vacant seat. Enter lady [looks about for a seat). Managing Director (pokes with his umbrella a weariedlooking navvy sitting opposite) : "Eh, mon, get up and let the 1 eddy sit doon." Navvy: " Git up yerself, ye bloated spalpeen. Bejabbers oi've been shlaving all day on yer deflncis, while j r e've been sittiu' on yer sthool doin' nuthin'." Bank Clerk (Euglish) : "Do me the favour, madam, to accept my seat." *Tableau — Lady smiling on Englishman, Scotch Director, and Irish Navvy scowling at each other. Curtain.
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Observer, Volume 7, Issue 333, 25 April 1885, Page 2
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