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A Fairy Play for Fairy People.
MAIDEN MONA THE MERMAID.
 A Fairy Play for Fairy People.
BY
F. A. D.
TORONTO:
BELFORD BROS., PUBLISHERS.
MDCCCLXXVII.
Dudley & Burns, Printers.
Hunter, Rose & Co., Bookbinders.
TO THE CHILDREN OF THEIR EXCELLENCIES, THE EARL AND COUNTESS OF DUFFERIN. THE Merry Little Party of Actors, FOR Whose Christmas Fun these Plays are Written, THIS LITTLE VOLUME, With this a sole excuse for its nonsense, IS Affectionately Dedicated.
MAIDEN MONA THE MERMAID.
DRAMATIS PERSONÆ.
The Gnome King.—A penniless potentate who used to play first fiddle,but has lost his key.
O’Rooster the Audacious.—High Cockolorum. Master of the (rocking)Horse. First Lord of the Shaving Brush. Gold Stick in w(h)aiting to theKing, and a warm stick, in plaster to Coquettina, Q.E.D.; R.S.V.P.;R.I.P.; etc., etc., etc.
General Bounce.—No relation to General De Billy Tee.
Captain Pounce.—Not Kept-in-pounds, shillings and pence, alas! Toopoor to “mawwy.”
Noodle,
Doodle.		Twins and orphans; without, strange to say, a single parent left, (of course, a single pair ain’t right.) Their prospects, however, are in a fine pickle, which is something.
Mona the Mermaid.—Only a mer(e)maid she.
The Queen of dainty, wee things.
Fresh from the seething waves.
The last sweet thing in sea things.
M-r-t-n T-pp-r.
Coquettina.—The Maid of the Mil(itary). Such a pet!
The Fairy of the Forest.—“The meet little cherub who sits up aloft
And takes care of the life of poor Jack.”
(Mr. Noodle.)
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