Where the Audience Went.
An old fellow who at one time kep^ an East End music-hall went to Colonel Mapleson for a professional pass for the opera. The colonel, having heard of the old man, honoured the card. "Ah, colonel," said the old fellow, "I allus cusses you when you shtarts your opera season — you reg'lar empties my 'ouse." "That be hanged for a tale." laughed the colonel ; "the villainous ruffians that infest your den wouldn't be admitted here, I can tell you." "I don't say they would, colonel; I don't say they would," the old fellow hurriedly explained ; "but they're all up hero just the same — you'll see 'em ail outside — pickin' pockets !"
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Otago Witness, Issue 2817, 4 March 1908, Page 87
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114Where the Audience Went. Otago Witness, Issue 2817, 4 March 1908, Page 87
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