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Cody is the hero of the place, and to any one familiar with Mr. Cody's personal history it requires no strech of the imagination to realize the incidents in which he is presented as the central figure. 'This like being a boy again, and reading one of Fenmore Cooper's tales. He is a real Hawkeye, and to you, here is the veritable (bingachgook). The age of romance is not ended after all. Mr. Vincent Crummies would have pawned his immortal soul for such a set of properties, so far ahead of real pumps and tube.
The scenes in the drama are admirably painted by Frank Skilf, the scenic artist, whose acquantaince with the localities described has -- a vigor and freshness to his brush. And Bill himself is a noble specimen of Western humanity, tall, musuclar, and handsome, the very ideal of a border hero. He acts remarkably well for a man whose life has been passed more among the realities than the simulations of savage life, and there is a freshness both in his walk and conversation which, it is to be hoped, he will never get over if he peursues the life of an actor. The boys roar over him with delight and all the girls are "mashed". Among the most interesting episodes in this wild border drama are the exhibitions of sharpshooting by the Austin Brothers, which excel anything of the kind we have seen. It is hard to say which to admire most, the skill of the marksman or the (??) of the man who holds the mark. There is no deception about it. It is display of cool daring and skill such as our old friend Cooper would have made us gloat over in his pages if he could have conceived it. Buffalo Bill will be at the Adelphi all this week.