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at Pope's Buffalo Bill crowded the upper tiers to suffocation every night, and had the lower portion of the house also full. The Counique had not space enough to give its patrons, who crowded the theater to its very doors. The Pickwick, in the West End, although no; situated so as to experience the same rush as the other amusement resorts, got its share of public attention and patronage. Mortimer's mysteries drawing large audiences every afternoon and evening.