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A DESPERATE GAME.
A Comic Drama.
IN ONE ACT.
BY
JOHN MADDISON MORTON,
(Member of the Dramatic Authors’ Society),
AUTHOR OF
Box and Cox, John Dobbs, The Woman I Adore, A Capital Match, Your Life’s in Danger, Who Stole the Pocket Book? Poor Pillicoddy, Friend Waggles, Where there’s a Will there’s a Way, The Writing on the Wall, Betsy Baker, Going to the Derby, My precious Betsy, Slasher and Crasher, The Two Bonnycastles, &c., &c.
THOMAS HAILES LACY,
WELLINGTON STREET, STRAND,
LONDON.
First performed at the Theatre Royal Adelphi, on Saturday, April 9th, 1853.