ressionless wooden doll_.

_Duet and Step-dance._

_Bl._ Oh, I do adore BRUNETTE! (_Dances._) Tippity-tappity,
tappity-tippity, tippity-tappity, tip-tap!

_Br_. BLANCHIDINE'S the sweetest pet! (_Dances._) Tippity-tappity, &c.

_Together._ When the sun is high,
We come out to ply,
Nobody is nigh,
All is mirth and j'y!

With a pairosol,
We'll protect our doll,
Make a mossy bed
For her wooden head!

[_Combination step-dance, during which both watch their feet with an
air of detached and slightly amused interest, as if they belonged to
some other persons._

Clickity-clack, clickity-clack, clickity, clickity, clickity-clack;
clackity-clickity, clickity-clackity, clackity-clickity-_clack_!

[_Repeat ad. lib._

_Bl._ (_apologetically to Audience_). Her taste in dress is rather
plain! (_Dances._) Tippity-tappity, &c.

_Br._ (_in pitying aside_). It _is_ a pity she's so vain!
(_Dances._) Tippity-tappity, &c.

_Bl._ 'Tis a shime to smoile,
But she's shocking stoyle,
It is quite a troyal,
Still--she mikes a foil!

_Br._ Often I've a job
To suppress a sob,
She is such a snob,
When she meets a nob! [_Step-dance as before._

[_N.B.--In consideration of the well-known difficulty that most
popular variety-artists experience in the metrical delivery of
decasyllabic couplets, the lines which follow have been written as
they will most probably be spoken._

_Bl._ (_looking off with alarm_). Why, here comes FANNY FURBELOW, a
new frock from Paris in! She'll find me with BRUNETTE--it's too
embarrassing!

[_Aside._
_To Brunette._ BRUNETTE, my love, I know _such_ a pretty game we'll
play at--
Poor TIMBURINA'S ill, and the seaside she ought to stay at.
(The Serpentine's the seaside, let's pretend,)
And _you_ shall take her there--(_hypocritically_)--you're such a
friend!

_Br._ (_with simplicity_). Oh, yes, that _will_ be splendid,
BLANCHIDINE,
And then we can go and have a dip in a bathing-machine!

[BLAN. _resigns the wooden doll to_ BRUN., _who skips off
with it_, L., _as_ FANNY FURBELOW _enters_, R., _carrying a
magnificent wax doll_.

_Fanny_ (_languidly_). Ah, howdy do--_isn