4.--CON-JU-GATE.

_Con._ Arrange a school, one of the actors dressing as a country

schoolmaster; let the scholars all have books in their hands, conning

their lessons in loud whispers.

_Ju._ The same school can be retained. One of the actors, dressed as a

German Jew pedler, can come to the school to sell pens, pencils, paper,

chalk, &c. He can talk in a broken Jewish manner. The _Jew_ should be

prominent in this scene.

_Gate._ This syllable, instead of the common representation of a gate,

made with a small clothes-frame, &c., can be represented by having the

whole company of actors dress in odd garments, and walk about the room

in couples, each with a different gait, hobbling, striding, pompous, &c.

_Conjugate._ Let the same schoolmaster assemble his unruly school,

and give out verbs to be conjugated; the scholars, to make the scene

ridiculous, should mix up languages and conjugations in a medley.

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