POPULAR NOTIONS OF POPULAR PERFORMERS.
DERIVED FROM SEEING THEM IN PUBLIC.

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MR. FRANK MATTHEWS.

Tt HAT he wears gaiters habitually, and a
pigtail. That his family chiefly consists
of marriageable danghters—to whom be
behaves with unpardonable barbarity, in-
sisting upon their marrying disagreeable
old bachelors, and locking them up because
they won't. That he is very weak-minded ;

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artifices. That he will suffer himself to be
persuaded that a young gentleman in moustaches and lavender kids,
found lurking about his premises, is the pot-boy ; and will believe
that the boots of @ concealed lover, peeping out from under the
window curtains, are his own, left there by 2 careless domestic—
forgetting to inquire to whom the trousers and spurs attached to
them belong. That he is in the habit of submitting to the most
scurrilous abuse from his own waiting-maid, contenting himself, in
return, with playfully aiming timid thrusts at her waist with his