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 future, viz., white where it is usually black, and vice versâ, white coat and trousers, black shirt, tie, and collar. Debardeur: loose velvet jacket and short trousers with Maltese buttons, scarf around waist and velvet cap. A clergyman desirous of being present might appear as a French abbé, or as a monk, in a long brown ample robe with wide sleeves, and a cord round the waist; or a Sacconi or Italian mute, in a monk's long white calico dress, with cord about the waist, and a pointed cap over the head and face, having holes for the eyes and mouth. The tall gamekeeper in Pickwick requires only a brown velveteen coat and gilt buttons, corduroy trousers, stout gaiters, and a game-bag slung on the shoulders. An Irish cardriver: green coat patched, brass buttons, brocaded waistcoat, drab breeches with patches, high collar and red tie, blue darned stockings, leather shoes, hat trimmed with green and sprigs of shamrock. The Cure: a blue and white striped calico suit, with high conical cap. A Christy Minstrel: blackened face, woolly wig, enormous collar, extravagant bouquet, long-tailed coat, trousers of striped calico, and banjo. The two Obadiahs: two people dressed alike in the above style. Pierrot, the French clown, large loose trousers and blouse, with frill at throat, made in white calico, a row of coloured rosettes down the front, conical hat; black skull cap, face much painted. Sergeant Buzfuz, in a legal black robe and coif; and the Windsor uniform, with red cloth lapels and cuffs sewn on to an ordinary evening dress-coat,—sometimes, in lieu of red cloth, light blue silk is used. Baker, cook, bookmaker, butler, miller, coachman, crossing-sweeper, also suggest themselves.

SISTERS who desire to appear in costumes which assimilate might choose any of the following: Apple and Pear Blossoms, Sovereign and Shilling, Cinderella's two sisters, Cordelia's sisters, Brenda and Minna Troil, Brunhilda and Kriemhilda, Salt and Fresh Water, the Roses of York and Lancaster, a Circassian Princess and Slave, Music and Painting, the Two Nornas, Lovebirds, Aurora and the Hours, Oranges and Lemons, and Four Sisters as the Seasons.