His corner, -for it was no ■ more, was in a certain degree
decorated,^ There were one or two portraits of popular
performers cut from the piatimal papers, and Bome more of



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artistes that nobody ever heard of, from small-priced dramatii
periodicals, pasted against the wall. There was also a bill
or two of the benefit of some subaltern of the company, who
was not of sufiicient importance to figure in the ordinary
placards, but who, to his great glory, had issued private bills
of his own, which were displayed at the bar of the nearest
public-house — perhaps, by a favour, in the parlour — and alsj
depended from legs of pork, bundles of cheap cheroots, door-
posts of eel-pie shops, and other establishments which the
fettered genius, who that night was to appear before his
friends in a character of his own choice, patronised.
