twits Feeny, the Gov'ment witness, with being a knock-kneed thief,
&c., &c. Mr. Stanton's grandfather was Sec'y of War in Ireland at
that time, so this was entirely proper.

Shaun is convicted and goes to jail. Hears Arrah singin outside.
Wants to see her a good deal. A lucky thought strikes him; he opens
the window and gets out. Struggles with ivy and things on the
outside of the jail, and finally reaches her just as Mr. Feeny is
about to dash a large wooden stone onto his head. He throws Mr. F.
into the river. Pardon arrives. Fond embraces. Tears of joy and
kisses a la Pogue. Everybody much happy.

Curtain falls.

This is a very harty outline of a splendid play. Go and see it--
Yours till then,

A. Ward.

7.5. ARTEMUS WARD AMONG THE FENIANS.

PRELIMINARY.

Sparkling with genuine fun and bristling with pungent satire,
this is an epitome of Artemus Ward's most genial humour and of
his keenly sarcastic truth. The doings of the Fenians have
hitherto been sufficiently ludicrous to merit the ridicule
which Artemus has added to the stock they have liberally
provided for themselves. To use the periphrasis of Senator
Sumner, they have hitherto been "the muscipular abortion of