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BUFFALO BILL BOOMING

A DUOLOGUE OF THE DAY.

A Crr. I notice that you've taken to wearing the Cowboy Collars. Find em' comfortable?

ANOTHER CIT. Fairly so. Speaking of comfort, aren't those Mocassin Boots of yours dreadfully troublesome in wet weather?

A CIT. Of course they are, but I was bound, for harmony's sake, to have a pair, as I'd started a Sioux Suit of blanket cloth. Like it?

ANOTHER CIT. Awfully, In fact, now I've seen you in it, I shall never rest till I've had a Wampum Waistcost built.

A CIT. They're very elegant. By the way, Mrs. Jones tells me that she recently met you in Oxford street.

ANOTHER CIT. Yes, your wife was wheeling a Papoose Perambulator, and it nearly went over my toes.

A Crr. She'd been to Peter Robinson's to buy a Squaw Costume for afternoon wear. You'll admire her in it, when you see her again.

ANOTHER CIT. I've no doubt I shall. My wife's meditating an investment in a gown of the kind; but in the meantime she's satisfied her fashionable longings by mounting a Log-but Hat.

A Crr. Ha! ha! These women must always be in the swim. Mrs. Brown'll be wanting you to take her to see The Deadwood Coach--the successful new piece at the Royal Arena Theatre--before very long, you see if she won't

ANOTHER CIT. Why, ever since she heard that they were turning money away nightly, she's been wild to go; and, to tell you the truth, I was trotting off to the booking-office to buy tickets when you and I stumbled across each other.

A CIT. Were you now? Well, I myself was making for Mudie's, to try if I could get that popular novel, "Buffalo Bill's Bride; or, the Pearl of the Pampas." Mrs. J is just frantic to read it.

[Exount severally upon their errands.