SHE.--"You are real disagreeable to-night, and I'm sorry I came with
you."
RURAL PERSON.--"Well, if this is the opery, I don't mind sayin' I like
it. Susan said I couldn't understand a word of the gibberish these opery
folks squawked, but it's just as plain as psalm-singing. Miss RICHIN and
that HERSY gal are just the tallest kind of singers. If we had 'em in
our choir, the Baptist folks might shut up their meetin'-house to
wunst."
ZIMMERMANN.--"When are we going to revive the Crook--did you ask? What
do we want to revive it for? Isn't the house full enough to-night to
satisfy anybody?"
FRIEND OF THE THEATRE--"To be sure it is. Stick to this sort of thing,
and you'll find it will pay better in the end than any amount of legs.
NIBLO'S is now a respectable theatre. Don't change it into an Anatomical
Museum."