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Amusements.

[Providence Daily Journal.]

The new play of Buffalo Bill,
"The Prairie Waif," is designed, as
have been all the plays of this noted
scout and actor, to illustrate life on
the plains and in the backwoods, but
the illustration now given is not quite
so extravagant as those heretofore
presented. It is more consistent, and
the situations admit of a possibility
in the minds of people accustomed to
quiet lives, that they paint actual occurrences.
To those who have never
known life in the west, never seen
cow-boys and their ilk, it is impossible
for them to realize that such
noise, hubbub and confusion, can
occur as is represented by the dramas
that Mr. Cody has brought before
the public, and "The Prairie Waif" is
better calculated to find favor with
the public from the fact that it is a
little tame compared to actual occurrences.
The company, as a whole
is very good one. The "Oneta" of
Lizzie FLetcher, and the "Sadie" of
Connie Thomson, are particularly
good, and Mr. Jule Keen's "Hands" is
true to nature, and he makes as fine
a Dutchman as one could wish to
see. If anything, Buffalo Bill has
improved as an actor-as a marksman,
there was and is no opportunity
for improvement. There was a large
audience present who, by their frequent
applause, testified their unqualified
approval of the performance.

-- Buffalo Bill was shot at three
times at Council Bludds on Monday
night by a "crank." Luckily, however,
he escaped uninjured and has
had the fellow arrested and will prosecute
him to the full extent of the
law.