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From the PREFACE. The following collection of travestical or burlesque sketches are intended to offer to the amateur an opportunity of amusing his friends with a new class of entertainment in which the fun created is a substitute for the genuine entertainment parodied, and an excuse for the humorous swindle perpetrated. The items being fresh and original, they are more valuable to laughter-makers than the hackneyed extracts from standard authors given in the numerous books of recitations. I reserve the rights of public performance because many of the items form part of my professional repertoire, and by so reserving them I am able to give the amateur some of my best things wherewith to amuse his friends. If the amateur desire to give a public representation from this work, he can do so, provided permission be obtained from the publisher or myself. In addition to the Bunkum Entertainments I have given a few miscellaneous pieces that I am constantly asked for, and which I feel sure will be useful, and some Drawing-room Comedies that I have given with my sister, Miss Kate Mills, and other actresses with the greatest success. I have had much pleasure in arranging this collection, and to those who have not the time to take up entertaining as a serious study I hope this book will prove serviceable. ROBERT GANTHONY, The Poplars, Richmond-on-Thames

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