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ORLANDINO
ORLANDINO
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This ebook edition has been proofed, corrected and compiled to be read with without errors!
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An excerpt from the beginning of the story:
"A PUPPET-SHOW—a raree-show!" cried little Bessy, bursting into the breakfast-room where her uncle was reading the newspaper, and where her mother was waiting for the tea-urn. "Oh, mamma! mamma! never mind the tea, or the spoonfuls! Oh come, come—do! mamma, and speak to this man! Will you, dear mamma? Pray, mamma!—Pray!—he is at the hall door."
"The person is gone from the hall door, my dear," said Bessy's sister Amy, entering with a certain degree of composure becoming her advanced time of life; for she might be between ten and eleven: "the person is gone; and he was not a man, but a boy."
"I am sorry he is gone," said Bessy, "whether he was man or boy; but I think he was a man, only a very little man, for I heard Thomas telling Walter that there was a showman at the door; and he gave Thomas a playbill, mamma—a very long playbill—as long as my arm, and longer. Do tell mamma, Amy, for you know all about it."
"I do not know all," said the discreet Amy. "Walter has the playbill, and here he comes."
"And here it comes," cried Bessy.
Walter came in, and held high above his head a long printed paper. And he read aloud, in the voice of a town-crier—
"On Monday, the 15th instant, will be performed, at
CASTLETOWN BELLEVUE,
A SUPERB DIVERTISSEMENT.
Morning Exhibition.
A Magnificent Double Tent, in form of an Amphitheatre, to be pitched in the park.
By particular desire,
O R L A N D I N O,
CHILD OF PROMISE—CHILD OF PERFORMANCE.
Astley Outdone,—Orlandino in India—Oriental Scenery—Tiger Hunt—Royal Tiger springing upon Captain Smith—Orlandino saves him.
Orlandino at Paris—Grand Tournament—Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, in costume.
Orlandino in Russia—Meeting of Murat and the Cossacks—Murat crowned King of the Cossacks—Attempt to Assassinate Murat—Orlandino saves him.
Exeunt omnes to the tune of
'Ou peut on etre mieux qu' au sein de sa famille.'
Interlude.
Music—God Save the Queen, and other Pieces, with the wonderful performance of Rule Britannia by the Self-modulating Melodious Lion's Head.
Evening Exhibition.
Dissolving Views—Fireworks—Burning of Moscow—Fall of the Kremlin—General Blow-up.
Orlandino in Ireland—Fairy Castle—Fairy Cap—Everything set a Dancing—Cups and Dishes Fly about—Hunchback Released.
Finis."
"Hunchback released," repeated Bessy; "oh this must be our old Edwin,
'In Britain's isle and Arthur's days, When midnight fairies danced the maze.'"
"I'd rather have 'Dissolving Views!'" cried Amy.
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An excerpt from the beginning of the story:
"A PUPPET-SHOW—a raree-show!" cried little Bessy, bursting into the breakfast-room where her uncle was reading the newspaper, and where her mother was waiting for the tea-urn. "Oh, mamma! mamma! never mind the tea, or the spoonfuls! Oh come, come—do! mamma, and speak to this man! Will you, dear mamma? Pray, mamma!—Pray!—he is at the hall door."
"The person is gone from the hall door, my dear," said Bessy's sister Amy, entering with a certain degree of composure becoming her advanced time of life; for she might be between ten and eleven: "the person is gone; and he was not a man, but a boy."
"I am sorry he is gone," said Bessy, "whether he was man or boy; but I think he was a man, only a very little man, for I heard Thomas telling Walter that there was a showman at the door; and he gave Thomas a playbill, mamma—a very long playbill—as long as my arm, and longer. Do tell mamma, Amy, for you know all about it."
"I do not know all," said the discreet Amy. "Walter has the playbill, and here he comes."
"And here it comes," cried Bessy.
Walter came in, and held high above his head a long printed paper. And he read aloud, in the voice of a town-crier—
"On Monday, the 15th instant, will be performed, at
CASTLETOWN BELLEVUE,
A SUPERB DIVERTISSEMENT.
Morning Exhibition.
A Magnificent Double Tent, in form of an Amphitheatre, to be pitched in the park.
By particular desire,
O R L A N D I N O,
CHILD OF PROMISE—CHILD OF PERFORMANCE.
Astley Outdone,—Orlandino in India—Oriental Scenery—Tiger Hunt—Royal Tiger springing upon Captain Smith—Orlandino saves him.
Orlandino at Paris—Grand Tournament—Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, in costume.
Orlandino in Russia—Meeting of Murat and the Cossacks—Murat crowned King of the Cossacks—Attempt to Assassinate Murat—Orlandino saves him.
Exeunt omnes to the tune of
'Ou peut on etre mieux qu' au sein de sa famille.'
Interlude.
Music—God Save the Queen, and other Pieces, with the wonderful performance of Rule Britannia by the Self-modulating Melodious Lion's Head.
Evening Exhibition.
Dissolving Views—Fireworks—Burning of Moscow—Fall of the Kremlin—General Blow-up.
Orlandino in Ireland—Fairy Castle—Fairy Cap—Everything set a Dancing—Cups and Dishes Fly about—Hunchback Released.
Finis."
"Hunchback released," repeated Bessy; "oh this must be our old Edwin,
'In Britain's isle and Arthur's days, When midnight fairies danced the maze.'"
"I'd rather have 'Dissolving Views!'" cried Amy.
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