cockcrow, which brings the entertainment to an appropriate termination._

Surely this would be an improvement upon the conventional reading? In this
case where speech is silvern, silence would be golden.

Trusting some Manager will take the matter up,

I remain, always yours sincerely,

A DUMB WAITER.

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OPERATIC NOTES.

_Monday.--Faust_ and Foremost. Miss EAMES better even than she was last
week. NED DE RESZKÉ not so diabolical a _Mephistopheles_ as M. MAUREL.

NEDDY RESZKÉ
Not so goblineske,

and a stouter sort of demon, but of course a "_bon diable_."

[Illustration: Cards held by Druriolanus Operaticus.]

_Wednesday._--_Roméo et Julietta._ JACK and NED DE RESZKÉ _Roméo_ and _The
Friar_. Why the waltz alone, which ought to be on every organ besides Miss
EAMES'S, but which, strange to say, isn't thoroughly popular, should be
enough to make an Opera; but it's like the proportion of one swallow in the
composition of a summer, and, however well sung, it does not do everything.