Enter Buddicombe, R. 1 E., following Lord Dundreary.
Bud A letter, my lord.
Dun [Takes letter.] You may go. [Exit Buddicombe, R. 1 E. Opens letter.]
``My dear Frederick.'' He calls me Frederick because my name is Robert.
``I wrote you on my arrival.'' Why, I never heard from him. ``But I
am afraid you didn't get the letter, because I put no name on the
envelope.'' That's the reason why I didn't get it, but who did get it?
It must have been some fellow without any name. ``My dear brother, the
other day a rap came to my door, and some fellows came in and proposed a
quiet game of porker.'' A quiet game of porker, why, they wanted to kill
him with a poker. ``I consented and got stuck--'' Sam's dead, I've got a
dead lunatic for a brother--``for the drinks.'' He got on the other side
of the paper, why couldn't he get stuck all on one side. ``P. S.--If you
don't get this letter let me know, for I shall feel anxious.'' He's a
mad lunatic. [Exit, R. 1 E.]
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