The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-23 00:00:00

LYCEUM THEATRE,

Mrs. Harris that hitherto mysterious lady, about
whose existence so
the universal referee
unicorns,been hitherto classed by
her appearance at the doubts have been entertained,
there in the expectation
of
of Mrs. Sairy Gamp, who has
as
au
entity
yby naturalists with mermaids and
scep-
tical—we still have our L heard of but never seen, made
culr.ceduonaubtlsti.st
having our doubts as to the
Tervueen,inwge.
saw
we
Mrs.
Harris cleared up, but we are seep-
Harris, but we
like is Mrs. Harris not
see Mrs. Gamp ; and so
see the two together,t° Mrs. Gamp, that until we
we shall not believe in thenjoying separate existences,
the two individuals. If e separate personal identity of
must Mrs. Harris be they
have separate existences, then
Mrs. Harris refers to thetwin sister of Mrs. Gamp ; for
Mrs. Gamp for her character, much
after the same manner
Harris,
alai Mrs. r that Mrs. Gamp refers to Mrs.
so that we may be aGamp does not appear upon the scene,
Opinion that Mrs. pardoned if we still maintain our old
Certes, Mr. Keele Gamp and Mrs. Harris are identical.
14:skelirs. Harris was marvellously like
his Mrs Gamp.
Mrs.
Gamp, Mrs. Harris attends
upon invaliges, and, like
gin upon the cull Mrs. Gamp, she has a bottle of
piece to put her mouth to
it whenever she is sileYo:lispodged. She is in attendance
upon a cataleptic patient, and as cataleptics can't speak,
she beats her patient after the approved Gamp method ;
moreover she has the approved Gamp taste for cow-
kintbers, pickled salmon Brighton tipper, and shilling
glasses of gin-and-water; ; and she suffers from the Gamp
complaint, of a constant sinking, which requires fre-
quent supplies of sustenance. Her patient, Henry Masker
owever only shamming. He is
the nephew of an
Mr. Mugbolt (Mr. opulent Birmingham manufacturer,
tion from a _certain Turner),i who has received informs-
that the juvenile is •
Mr. Slickey (Mr. F. Matthews)
about to contract oingthe pace in London, and is
Arden) a pretty matrimonymilliner with Fanny Platt (Miss
to take Slickey into
whereupon the old uncle deter-
minesnephew down to Birmingh°afnarhtnership, and to send his
cataleptic,
third-class train. The
nephew, thereupon, shams
by Dr. Biliary Shivers (Mr.
311 and is attended
Harris, the nurse. Fanny Platt broinwss), and
by Mrs.
Harris, newly trimmed, a favourite cap, ogneawehlpehfor Mrs.
she had
worn on the day when she took the late de • ed Mr.
llarris to Guidge Hospital, and at the same timesze g brings
a note from Mrs. Gamp, inviting Mrs. Harris
to supper
off a goose and sausages. Tempted by , the goose and
sausages, Mrs. Harris resigns her post of watcher
to
Fanny, but in the meantime Slickey has entered
and dis-
covered the supposed invalid busy with Mrs. Harris's
with
him
supper. Slickey proposes to change clothes
and take his place, so as to afford him an
opportunity of escape, which Masker gladly embraces,
and Slickey, taking the place of the cataleptic,
is pur-
suing his designs upon the fair Fanny, when
Masker
returns, having found in the pockets of slid
convincing proofs of his villainy, Disguised in guised ie's
coat
coat, wig, and spectacles, he is secure from lickeY's
discovery, and
having made himself known to Fanny, he
arouses
household, announces himself as the far-famed doctor
the
octor who
has been sent for to cure the cataleptic patient,
brings in a powerful electrical machine, and so shocks
Slickey, that he is glad to discover himself to escape
further torture—of course the uncle eons
ernts to his
marriage, and all ends happily. Mrs.
Har.quor, and
Harris returns
just at this moment rayther tosticaled with liquor,
seating herself upon the machine, gets a severe shock
which as she says, di he
her entirely.
However, as
her invalidge has recovered, she distributes her cards about
the house, and announces, amidst the vociferous cheers,
of a crowded house, that she will resume
her
ogerous
duties every evening until further notice. s
cured by slinking the midriff—liver complaints are are
e cured
'
by putting the abdominal muscles into violent action—
spleen is cured by laughter, which shakes the midriff,
and puts the abdominal muscles into violent motion.
Therefore, let all those who labour under r s as
complaints, spleen, and nerveu,ness_or biliousness,, liver
which are composed of those diseases—tak,
an hour's
course of the Harris cure at the Lyceum, and they will
be made whole.

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