Volume 98 — The Busy "B."
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[Mr. Bancroft has just settled one theatrical difference, and now he is engaged on a "far more delicate matter"; i.e., a dispute between a Manager and an Actor.]
How doth the little busy "B" Employ each leisure hour? By arbitrating all the day With great dramatic power.
Extremes Meet.—"The Darkies' Africa" is an Eastern entertainment at Weston's Music Hall.
Couldn't Slander and Libel causes be appropriately heard in Sir James Hannen's Admiralty Court, as "Running Down Cases?"

THE CHEAP FARES.
Passengers. "We're Full—there's no room!"
Conductor. "We must make Room for 'er. There's Room for One on the Near Side 'ere. B'sides you're all short Penn'orths, and she's a Fourpenn'orth—goes the Whole Way!"