heir epitaph.

Pantomimes--as our forefathers knew them--have become a thing of the
past, and the survivors, Clown and his comrades, the former whose quips
and quiddities, in childhood's happy days, many of us still lovingly
remember; the wonderment with which we gazed at the magical tricks
wrought by Harlequin and his wand; the quaint conceits and ambling gait
of Pantaloon; and, last but not least, bewitching Columbine, with whom,
most likely as each year came round, in youthful ardour we fell anew in
love's toils, are all rapidly vanishing into the dim and distant past,
and to live in the future only in the memory.

CURTAIN.

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