Volume 25 — CLERICAL TABLE-TURNERS AND SPIRIT-RAPPERS.
Reading edition
CLERICAL gentlemen are going about the country, giving entertainments, and making exhibitions of themselves, in connection with table-turning, spirit-rapping, and other freaks of furniture. The usual places of amusement, such as the concert-rooms and lecture-theatres are being occupied by clergymen, who admit the public at fixed prices to hear, but unfortunately not to see, the wonders on which they expatiate. By way of Extra Attraction for the Holidays we recommend any one of the Reverend Mountebanks to go the whole hog, or rather the whole ma-hog-any, by taking some establishment suited to scenes in the circle, and giving an entertainment, with a programme something resembling the following:—
THEATRE ROYAL ANYWHERE.
General combination of Table-turning talent. By a happy concurrence of fortuitous events, the Reverend Sampson Spooney, the Reverend Mealy Mouthpiece, and the Reverend Jabez Jawbone are now in London together and will have the honour of appearing in conjunction with the
Most Splendid Stud of Highly-Trained Tables.
For a few evenings, during Christmas, Sampson Spooney in his rapid act of horsemanship on the
WILD TABLE OF THE NEW CUT.
This astounding table will dash through an open window, spin round for a quarter of an hour, and conclude its wonderful performance by leaping out of the circle, with the Reverend Sampson Spooney hanging on to its castors.
To be followed by the
REVEREND MEALY MOUTHPIECE AS THE COURIER OF EXETER HALL,
On six dining-tables in full gallop, all of which will take an astounding leap over each other's backs; and conclude by throwing a succession of somersets over a sideboard.
In the course of the evening, the
REVEREND JABEZ JAWBONE, IN THE HAUTE ÉCOLE,
will introduce his
Favorite and Highly-Trained Table "Rosewood,"
which will dance the Valse à Deux Temps, go round the circle on three legs and terminate its graceful evolutions by a marvellous display of sommersaults.
The entertainments will finish with a pleasing act by Masters Jawbone and Spooney, the celebrated juvenile prodigies, on a pair of card-tables. The intervals of the performances will be filled up by the solemn mummeries of the celebrated clerical buffoon, the Reverend Timothy Twist, assisted by a Deathless Clown from Drury Lane, and other available talent.
"Une Bonne Bouche."—When a young lady says her heart is in her mouth. (Hem! Hem!)