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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 "Sadue" 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.