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saw the man 'ung at all! _His Companion_. Put in another penny, and p'raps you'll see him cut down, old chap. BEFORE THE FAIRY FORTUNE-TELLER'S GROTTO. _Susan Jane_ (_to her Soldier_.) Oh, ain't that pretty? I should like to know what _my_ fortune is. [_She feels in her pocket._ _The Soldier_ (_who disapproves of useless expenditure_). Ain't you put in enough bloomin' pennies? _Susan Jane_. This is the last. (_Reads Directions_.) Oh, you've got to set the finger on the dial to the question you want answered, and then put your penny in. What shall I ask her? _Soldier_. Anyone would think you meant to go by the answer, to hear you talk! _Susan Jane_. P'raps I do. (_Coquettishly, as she sets the index to a printed question._) Now, you mustn't look. I won't 'ave _you_ see what I ask! _Soldier_ (_loftily_). _I_ don't want to look, I tell yer--it's nothing to me. _Susan Jane_. But you _are_ looking--I saw you. [_A curious and deeply interested crowd collects around them._ _Soldier_. Honour bright, I ain't seen nothing. Are you going to be all night over this 'ere tomfoolery? [_SUSAN JANE puts in a penny, blushing and tittering; a faint musical tinkle is heard from the case, and the little fairies begin to revolve in a solemn and mystic fashion; growing excitement of crowd. A pasteboard bower falls aside, revealing a small disc on which a sentence is inscribed._ _Person in Crowd_ (_reading slowly over SUSAN JANE's shoulder_). "Yus; 'e is treuly worthy of your love." _Crowd_ (_delighted_). That's worth a penny to know, _ain't_ it, Miss? _Your_ mind's easy now! It's the soldier she was meanin'. Ah,_'e_ ought to feel satisfied too, after that! &c., &c. [_Confusion of SUSAN JANE._ _Soldier_ (_as he departs with S.J._). Well, yer know, there's something _in_ these things, when all's said! IN DEPARTING. _A Pleased Pleasure-seeker_. Ah, that's something like, that is! I've seen the 'Aunted Miser, and the Man with the 'Orrors, and a Execution, and a Dyin' Child--they do make you _larf_, yer know! _Second P.P._ Yes, it's a pity the rest o'the Exhibition ain't more the same style, to my thinking! _A Captious Critic_. Well, they don't seem to me to 'ave much to do with anything _naval_. _His Companion_. Why, it comes under machinery, don't it? You're so bloomin' particular, you are! Wouldn't touch a glass o' beer 'ere, unless it was brewed with salt-water, I suppose! Well,
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