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Title Page

A DESPERATE GAME.

A Comic Drama.

IN ONE ACT.

BY

JOHN MADDISON MORTON,

(Member of the Dramatic Authors’ Society),

AUTHOR OF

Box and Cox, John Dobbs, The Woman I Adore, ACapital Match,
Your Life’s in Danger, Who Stole the Pocket Book? Poor
Pillicoddy, Friend Waggles, Where there’s a Will
there’s a Way, The Writing on the Wall, Betsy Baker,
Going to the Derby, My precious Betsy, Slasher
and Crasher, The Two Bonnycastles, &c., &c.

THOMAS HAILES LACY,

WELLINGTON STREET, STRAND,

LONDON.

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First performed at the Theatre Royal Adelphi,
on Saturday, April 9th, 1853.

Characters.

Costumes.

CAPTAIN RATCLIFFE.—Green coat, gilt buttons, light waistcoat, blacktrowsers, with over coat, whiskers, and moustache to take off.

POSTLETHWAITE.—Light drab trowsers, fancy waistcoat,blue shooting coat, green wide-awake. Second dress: Same, muddy.

DAVID.—Old fashioned livery.

MRS. SOMERTON.—Greentarletan ball dress, trimmed with ribbon and flowers.

PEGGY.—Old fashioned housekeeper’s dress.

SCENE—Tunbridge Wells.

Time in Representation—55 minutes.

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A DESPERATE GAME.

SCENE I.—A Dra