LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 016 103 940 8 ^ >^ '::.?-m Crt3 r 1:6.- JHP96-006754 1 Copyrighted by A. J. Fisher, 24 Vesey street, New York, 1879. The Blackwell Ex-Isles. COMIC SKETCH. BY SAUL SERTREW. CHARACTERS. Sandy. * Cornelius. SCENE — Street, Vieiv of a pa^vnbroker's house. Three balls hanging' over the door, and sign marked " Simpson" Enter Sandy, clothed in rags. (Looks up at house.) — Here have I anchored at last. To Simpson's have I come. An exile from Blackwell's Isle. Yes, they drove me from its palatial mansions. There's not even standing room. The people are hanging to the water- spout, and I have come here to Simpson's to see if I can spout myself. (Looks at his clothes.) I can't raise anything on these garments — (surprised) — garments, did I say ! Gar- bage, I should have said. (Looks at house.) Oh! if Simpson would loan me something on myself ! I will, I will appeal to him, and if he does not hear my appeal, I will carry my case to the Court of Appeals, (Goes to door of pawnbroker's house and sings) : "TAKE ME, SIMPSON." Air : " Take this Letter to My Mother." Take me Simpson, take me darling, Loan me something on myself ; Fold me in my linen duster, Throw me \\\< upon the shelf. For the times they are so poorly, Nothing can I get to do ; I've been chewing my suspenders Till my teeth are black and blue. Chorus. Take me, vSimpson, take me, darling, Loan me something on myself; Fold me in my linen duster, Hang me up upon the shelf. [Comes forward. Where, oh, where's my rich relations, Where's the friends I used to know ; Where's the Judge that gave me six months, Why fore don't he do so now ? Once I was a Gladiator, In the Ring I had a " pull ;" Now they hang me out the window When the station-house is full. Take me, Simpson, &c. One of the balls drops from over the door. Sandy discovers the ball. Ah ! what is this I see before me — a snowball ? (Picks up ball.) No ! it's one of Simpson's ten-pin balls that has fallen from over his alley door. Yes, this ball has heard me bawl- ing, and " dropt on it." (Examines ball and soliloquizes.) Ah, this ball. I knew it well, Horatio Simpson. O, how many times I have played ten-pins and made a ten strike with that ball ! Ah, those good times are past. You might put this ball in a cannon now and shoot it off, and you wouldn't hit anything. (Smooths ball with his hand.) To what base use some things do come \ This ball, now so ^^A/headed, must have met with many ^a?> breadth escapes^ Perchance this ball may have dangled from the ear of some belle of the ball, and now has become the emblem of a pawn- broker, and playing three-card monte over his door while he is throwing dice inside, I will take this ball into Simpson's, and tell him it's a ^zxdJice lost and I have found it. Tho* I may be batted and bounced owi^ upon this ball I will/zV if sick, and leans against side of house) as Enter Sandy, with ball in his hand. I have seen Simpson, and he loaned me a fish ball, and told me to keep this ball to remind me of my obligation. Yes, the sacrifice was awful. I have pawned myself to Simp- son, and when the hour of ten minutes expires I am a doomed man ! (Discovers Cornelius.) Ah, who have we here ? (Goes to Cornelius and slaps him on the shoulder.) Why this Moodyness and Sankeyness ? Cornelius (turns and recognizes Sandy) — Hello ! Sandy, old boy, is that you ? Sandy — Yes, it is all that is left of me ; and the balance will belong to Simpson in a few minutes. Cornelius (surprised) — Whyfore this emotion from an old Castilian and brother convict ? What is the matter ? What are you doing around here ? Sandy — I've just been getting a loan on myself from Simp- son. I didn't think it safe to be alone any longer. ' -vv Cornelius (amazed) — A loan on yourself ! Why, you don't mean to say that you have been spouting yourself — given yourself in pledge ! Well, what did you get on this valuable casket (turns Sandy around.) Six months ? Sandy — No ; I got one fish ball without bread. They don't give bread with one fish ball, and I have devoured the fish ball. Cornelius — And what security did you give ? Sandy — I am to give myself up to Simpson in ten minutes. Cornelius — What for ? Sandy — To be used as a door-mat, for people to wipe their muddy shoes on. Yes ; when the bell tolls the hour of ten minutes I am a doomed man. My arms and legs are to be cut off, and my body used as a door-mat. Cornelius (horrified) — Gracious hevvings ! you don't say so ! Well, I don't think I will try to get a loan on myself. I'll leave Simpson alone. He might want me for a mop to wipe up the floor. Sandy (in despair)— Oh, this is dreadful ! But I wouldn't 5 care so much about it if I could only see my mother-in-law before I part this life. Cornelius — Your mother-in-law ! "What do you want to see her for ? Sandy — She owes me two dollars and a half, and I want to get it. Cornelius — What are you going to do with it ? You can't take it with you. Sandy — I thought I would leave it to build a " hotel for wealthy women, and not charge them anything for board." Cornelius — Oh, you might better leave the two dollars and a half to me. I'm an old friend of yours and a brother exile and Castilian. Sandy (starts) — Aye, that's so. A thought strikes me. You just hold this ball, and I will depart at once for my mother-in-law's castle and get the two dollars and a half and return before the hour of my execution and give it to you. (Hands ball to Cornelius.) Watch over this ball, and guard it with your life. Cornelius (takes ball) — I will, my noble duke. So haste away. Not a moment is to be lost, and I will hold the fort till you return. So hurry up and bring me the two dollars and a half. Sandy — 'Tis well, my noble Pythias. I fly ! I fly ! Shoo, fly ! [Exit, stamping off. Changes to the character of Shy lock, the Jetv. Cornelius (very happy, dances about in glee, and tosses up the ball and catches it.) — I, golly, I'm to be left a fortune of two dollars and a half ! Oh, my ; won't I be a sport — won't I be a thoroughbred ! A loud noise of a gong is heard in doleful sounds, struck at intervals, ten times. Cornelius (frightened, moves friglit wig up and down) — Ah ! what is that I hear ? Oh, what have I done ? I see it all ! Yes, I have put myself in his pface ! I have taken the place of Sandy, and that Shylock will come for his pound of 6 flesh, and I am lost ! I'm a doomed man ! The bell tolls the hour of ten minutes, and I am lost ! Oh, hevvings, why didn't I think of this before ! What is to be done ? If I run away they will set the bloodhounds on me and I would be devoured ! (Runs about working his fright wig. Stops sud- denly) as Enter Sandy, disguised as Shylock. (Has a large tin sword in his hand, scrapes it on the floor, as if to sharpen it.) — I want me pound of flesh ! I want me bond ! I want me door-mat ! (Scrapes sword on the flooi-.) Cornelius (trembling and shaking with fright) — Oh, it wasn't me ! I didn't do it ! It was another fellow ! He's gone to see his mother-in-law ! He's coming right back ! O, spare me, good Shylock, and I'll never do so again. (Falls on his knees.) Shylock — It is too late ; the hour is passed, and thou art a doomed man, and nothing can save thee. I shall hang thee first, and then cut thy arms and legs off", and use thy body for a door-mat ! What, ho ! guards without, seize the victim. (A man enters, puts a bag over Cornelius' head, and leads him off", followed by Shylock, saying) : I want me pound of flesh ! I want me bond ! I want me door-mat ! (Loud noise and murmuring heard outside) as Enter Sandy, in his original dress, tvith a big carving-knife. 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Harrigan A Hart's Mulcahy Twins, 7. Johnny Roach's Greatest. 8. Kiss Behind the Door. 9. Delehanty & Hengler's Songs, &c. 10. Miles Morris' Irish Gems. 11. Foy Sisters Songster. VJ. McKee & Rogers' Retiecca Jane. 13. Jennie Engle's Serio Comic. 14. The Fielding's Songster. 15. Wayne & Lovely's Acrobatic. 16. Johiiiiy Roach's Emerald. 17. I want to go Home to M.ama. 18. Luke Schoolcraft's Shine on. 19. Billy Cotton's Old Black Joe. •JO. Delehantv & Hengler's Love, &c 21. Billie & Maggie Ray's Old Log Cabin. 22. McAndrew's Water Melon Man. 28. J'.hnny Roach's Its Funny when you Feel, Ac. 24. Harrigan & Hart's Mulligan Guards. 25. Walters and Morton's My Gal. 26. Billy Carter's Great Banjo Solo. 27. Johnson & Power's Little Moke. 28. Jennie Engle's Favorite Songs. 29. Shoot the Hat. 30. Freeman Sisters' On Board the Mary Jane. 31. Jennie Hughes' I Should Like To. 32. Woman's Temperance. 33. Gus Williams' Belle of the Ball. 34. The Fieldings' Tipperary Couple. 35. Harrigan & Hart's Tom Collins. 36. Wild & Bradley's Big Fat Nance. 37. Larry Toolev's Bouncing Dutchman, 38. Harrigan & Hart's Regular Army. 39. Ain't von Awful. 40. Harrigan & Hart's Patrick's Day Parade. 41. Arnold Brothers' Jig, Song and Dance. 42. Diamond & Ryan's Irish Hod Carriers. 43. Harrigan & Hart's Mulligan Grds (2d Au. Prde) 44. Sandford & Wilson's Musical Mokes. 45. Harrigan & Hart's Skidniore Guards. 46. Billv Courtwright'sFlewy,Flewy,FlewySngstr 47. Harjier & Stansill's One Legged Songster. 48. Fielding's Irish Domestics Songster. 49. Tony Pastor's Traveling Sonirster. 50. Jenny Morgan's Kiss Songster. 51. Fov Sisters Mr. and Mrs. Thon.pson. 52. Wild & Bradley Theatre Comique. 53. Alice Harrison's Olympic. 54. Billy Carter's Champion Banjo. 55. Cool Burgeps' Nicodemus Johnson. 56. Alice Bennett's Laughing Eyes. 57. Richmond Sister's Challenge Song and Dance. 58. Harrigan & Hart's Day we Celebrate. 59. Dr. J. L. Thayer's Laugh and Grow Fat, &c. 60. Sheridan & Mack's Knocking on de Outside, Ac. 6L Harrigan A Hart's Gallant 69" h. 62. T. M.' Hengler's Fun in the Kitchen. 63. Drlrhanty A Cuinmings' Sunset in the South. 64. RoUin Howard's Dramatic. f.5. C. L Davis' Dutch Song and Dance. 66. Johnson A Bruno's Mania Monia Nigs. 67. Sam Devere's Caricature Song. 68. Miles Morris' Roger O'Mallev. 69. Harrigan A Hart's Blue and Gray. 70. H.irper A Stansill's Sweet June Rose. 71. Ada Richmond's W.ait Till Moonlight Falls, Ac. 72. Pat Rooney's O'Reilly You're N. G. 73. La Verd Sisters Sailing on the Lake. 74. Ella Wesner's King of Trumps. 75 T. M. Hengler's Sweet Aleen. 76. Harrigan A Hart's Hildebraud Montrose. 77. Jolly Nash's Our Boys. 78. Tierney A Cronin's Ashantee Recruits. 79. Big Four, Lester, Allen. Smith A Waldron. 80. The Murray's Dro]>s of Blarney. 81. Western A Wal ling's Just as You See us Now. 82 Am. T^am, Wayne, Lovely, Cotton A Birdue, 83. Jakey Woolfingstein. 84. Larry Tooley's Turn Down Your Collar 85. Bennett A ICernell's Across the Raging Waters. 86. Foster A Dud ley's. Irish Clog. Song ami Dance. LieRftRV OF co£Sl „■,.. Diilv Pa^tur's Star Traveling. 101. H. Osborne's A F. Wentworth's L.ad A Lass, Ac. 1U2. Johnson A Bruno's Jnst from Tennessee. 103. Scan Ion A Cronin's Irishmen to the Front, 104. Foy Sisters' Branigan Band. 105. Harrigan A Hart's S. O. T. 106. Niles A Evans' Two Love Letters. 107. Arnold Brott'ers' Triple Clog, Song and Dance. I(t8. Kirk A Drew's Mischievous Offspring. 109. Sam Devere's A Lean Banana. 1 to. Harry Braliam's Silly Bill and Father. 111. Scanlan A Cronin's Poor, but a Gentleman Still. 1 12. Harrigan A Hart's Slavery Days. 113. Dick Sands' Irish Character 114. Bryant A Williams' Slender Nigi=. 115. Lizzie Braham's Sweet Bye and Bye. 116. Delehanty A Hengler's Re-united Serenaders, 1 17 Murray's Old and Young. 118. Frank Lewis' Motto Songster. 119. Harrigan A Hart's GlMing Down the Stream. 120. Harrigan A Hart, Walking for dat Cake. 121. Jeppe and Fanny Delano's Love at First Sight. 122. Clara Moore's Character and Descriptive. 123. Will Morton's Behind the Scenes. 124. Kellv A Ryan's Bards of Tar.i. 125. Bran New Big Four. 126. Cool Burgess Don't Get Weary. 127. Scanlan A Cronin, Dundreary O'Donnell. 12-f. James D Roonies' Fashionable Beats 129. Ly.lia Thompson's On the Strict Q. T. 130. Tile Peasleys' O'Rielleys' Raffle. 131. Girard Brothers' Dancing in the Sunlight. 132. Harrigan A Hart's Sunday Night when, Ac. 133. Chas. Konollman's New York Variety. 134. Sheehan A Jones' Man of Education. 135. Chas Diamond's Milanese Minstrels. 136. The Murdoch's Don't You Do It. 137. Will. H. Trimble's Specialty. 138. The Bennett's Kitchen Domestic. 139. F. Lewis's Remember you have Children, Ac. 140. Larry Tooley's Mutton Pie. 141. Harry Woodson's Gwine Back to Dixie. 142. Hsrrigan A Hart's Front Stoop. 143. The McKee's Dancing in the Barn, 144. Worden A Mack's Little Ruby 145. Ben Dodge's Don't take any Notice. 146. 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