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Sir Charles's party followed him, and supped at Huntercombe, every man Jack of them. Reginald, who had delivered a terrific cat-call, now ran off to Lady Bassett. There she was, still on her knees. "Found! found!" he shouted. She clasped him in her arms and wept for joy. "My eyes!" said he, "what a one you are to cry! You come home; you'll catch your death o' cold."
The stage-scene has dropped. Settle yourselves, my good audience; chat each with his neighbor. Dear madam in the boxes, take up your opera- glass and look about you. Treat Tom and pretty Sal to some of those fine oranges, O thou happy-looking mother in the two-shilling gallery! Yes, brave 'prentice-boys in the tier above, the cat-call by all means!
Imitations of the cries of various animals mingled with the loud laughter; the Museum official having taken it into his head to mimic a cat-call rather like the caterwauling of the animal in question, eight voices simultaneously struck up with the following variations: "Scissors to grind!" "Chick-weeds for singing bir-ds!" "Brandy-snaps, ladies!" "China to mend!" "Boat ahoy!"
This occasioned the author to take his revenge upon the town, by dedicating it to a certain Knight, under the title of Sir Critic Cat-call. The chief plot of this play is founded on a Romance written by Don Francisco de las Coveras, called Don Fenise, translated into English in 8vo. See the History of Don Antonio, b. iv. p. 250.
Now there was an occasional cat-call, and hootings, and whistlings, and finally the diversion of an exchange of connected remarks was introduced: "How many does it take to make a pair?" "Well, two generally makes a pair, but sometimes there ain't stuff enough in them to make a whole pair." General laugh. "What were you saying about the English a while ago?"
For the next two hours a steady stream of people poured along the two sides of the field until they became great walls of crimson and blue humanity. Flags waved, badges fluttered, the human voice worked itself hoarse in every form of encouraging outcry from the full-chested song to the indiscriminate cat-call.
First, it is well known that the prologue serves the critic for an opportunity to try his faculty of hissing, and to tune his cat-call to the best advantage; by which means, I have known those musical instruments so well prepared, that they have been able to play in full concert at the first rising of the curtain.
You are called upon to suppose that we are older by five years than when you last saw us "fret our hour upon the stage." Five years! the author tells us especially to humor the belief by letting the drop- scene linger longer than usual between the lamps and the stage. Play up, O ye fiddles and kettle-drums! the time is elapsed. Stop that cat-call, young gentleman; heads down in the pit there!
And not only the critic but also the brainless beau stands, as we have seen, ready to make sport of the poor author. For such as these "'Tis not the Poet's wit affords the Jest, But who can Cat-call, Hiss, or Whistle best."
"Let us take it that this patch of charred grass hides something, or marks the way to something, something buried underneath it, or lying near by. Eh what's that?" "That" was a cat-call ringing out across the misty silences from the direction in which Dollops and Petrie had gone. "They've found something!" cried out Mr. Narkom, in a hoarse whisper of excitement. "Obviously.
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