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The American Joe Miller

by Robert Kempt

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Presented at Court — 512

An American who had returned from Europe, told his friend that he had been presented at the court there. “Did you see the Queen?” asked one. “Well, no, I didn’t see her zacly, but I seed one of her friends—a judge. Yer see,” he continued, “the court I was presented at happened to be the Central Criminal Court.”

CRITICAL.—513.

A Western critic, in speaking of a new play, says:—“The unities are admirably observed; the dulness, which commences with the first act, never flags for a moment until the curtain falls.”

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