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Scene from "Serve Him Right", at the Lyceum Theatre, [London], 1850. 'The accompanying Illustration gives one of the most entertaining scenes in the drama of "Serve Him Right" - indeed, the climax of the absurdity. The boor who comes a-wooing the housekeeper is here exhibited, making his reappearance on the wall in order to recover his boots and hat, which he had lost in his previous adventure. These important articles of wearing apparel are being substituted by others, while the suspicious husband stands aside with the originals on the end of a stick. The whole situation is exceedingly amusing; and, indeed, when the previous circumstances are understood, calculated to excite uproarious mirth in the audience'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.