COMIC CREDENTIALS.

T.R.C.G.

Sir,--I feel myself bound in justice to you and your invaluable
laughter, as well as to others who may be suffering, as I have
been, with a weakly farce, to inform you of its extraordinary
results in my case. My bantling was given up by all the faculty,
when you were happily shown into the boxes. One laugh removed all
sibillatory indications; a second application of your invaluable
cachinnation elicited slight applause; whilst a third, in the form
of a _guffaw_, rendered it perfectly successful.

From the prevalence of dulness among dramatic writers, I have no
doubt that your services will be in general requisition.

I am, yours, very respectfully,
J.R. Planche.
C---- C----.


Sir,--I beg to inform you, for the good of other bad jokers, that I
deem the introduction of your truly valuable cachinnation one of
the most important ever made; in proof of which, allow me to state,
that after a joke of mine had proved a failure for weeks, I was
induced to try your cachinnation, by the use of which it met with
unequivocal success; and, I declare, if the cost were five guineas
a _guffaw_, I would not be without it.