Just Published. The “Popular Edition” of Baker’s Reading Club and HandySpeaker. Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 4, 50 selections in each. Price 15 centseach.
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1876, by George M.Baker, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
A MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE
A FARCE.
BY THE AUTHOR OF
“Sylvia’s Soldier,” “Once on a Time,” “Down by the Set,” “Bread on the Waters,”
“The Last Loaf,” “Stand by the Flag,” “The Tempter,” “A Drop Too Much,” “We’re
All Teetotalers,” “A Little More Cider,” “Thirty Minutes for Refreshments,”
“Wanted, a Male Cook,” “A Sea of Troubles,” “Freedom of the Press,” “A
Close Shave,” “The Great Elixir,” “The Man with the Demijohn,” “New
Brooms Sweep Clean,” “Humors of the Strike,” “My Uncle the Captain,”
“The Greatest Plague in Life,” “No Cure, No Pay,” “The Grecian
Bend,” “The War of the Roses,” “Lightheart’s Pilgrimage,”
“The Sculptor’s Triumph,” “Too Late for the Train,” “Snow-Bound,”
“The Peddler of Very Nice,” “Bonbons,” “Capuletta,”
“An Original Idea,” “Enlisted for the War,”
“Never say Die,” “The Champion of her Sex,”
“The Visions of Freedom,” “The Merry Christmas
of the Old Woman who lived in a
Shoe,” “The Tournament of Idylcourt,”
“A Thorn among the Roses,”
“A Christmas Carol,”
“One Hundred
Years Ago,”
&c.
BOSTON:
GEORGE M. BAKER AND COMPANY,
41-45 Franklin Street.
Copyright
By George M. Baker,
1876.
Electrotyped at the Boston Stereotype Foundry,
19 Spring Lane.
A MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE.
A FARCE.
CHARACTERS.
| Captain Boliver Bobstay, “Mysteriously disappeared.” Charles Cleverly, an Amateur Farmer. Dixon Dolby, out for a Day’s Sport. Carlos Carrots, a Farm Hand. Mrs. Cleverly, Charles’s Wife. Nelly Cleverly, Charles’s Sister. Miss Persis Grievous, “Widow Bobstay.” |
COSTUMES.
Captain. Wide-bottomed trousers, and “Reefer” of blue; blue shirt;black handkerchief; bald wig for own; black wig and big blackwhiskers for disguise.
Dolby. Checkered suit; gaiters; Jockey cap.
Charles. Blue flannel suit; wide-brimmed straw hat.
Carlos. Wide straw hat; heavy shoes; blue stockings; short pants;and jacket open; with red or yellow waistcoat; red wig.
Nelly. Pretty muslin dress, with apron and morning cap.
Mrs. C. Morning dress.
Miss Persis....