A gay and
festive scene. Here, there, and everywhere, Egyptian houses made
of cardboard, containing stalls full of the most useful articles
imaginable. On the dais, a number of sweet-faced ladies presenting
purses (containing L3 3s. and upwards) to the Princess, who received
them with an affability which won the hearts of all beholders. On the
floor of the building was a gaily-dressed throng, which included many
a distinguished person. The revelry continued for three days, and was,
I trust, the means of obtaining funds for a charity which, no doubt,
is most deserving of support. And here, I may say, I revelled so much
at the Albert Hall, that I had no desire to revel anywhere else.
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FETE OR FATE?
OR, HOPPERS IN COVENT GARDEN, MARCH 4TH.
(_BY MR. PUNCH'S OWN IMPRESSIONIST._)
Lights and bouquets--flush and flare--
Motley medley--splash affair--
Deft disguises--flute and fife--
Half the world without his wife--
Dominos, and masks, and faces--
Graces three--and three Disgraces.
Jacks-in-boxes--tambour-majors--
Janes in office--ancient stagers--
REYNOLDS' Duchess--Shepherdesses;
(Burlington) Arcadian tresses--
Primrose damsels,--clowns and follies,--
Organ-grinders--Flemish dollies--
Macaronis, rather muddy,
Of the central stud a study--
England's mashers, Afric's dark sons--
NATHAN's stock-in-trade and CLARKSON's--
All costumes not apt the back to,
Some of them inclined to crack too--
Martyred revellers in upper
Rooms, and singing for their supper.
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