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8 It is very singular that in the remarkable application, in the spring of 1883, by the Duke of Vallombrosa for a criminal information against the editor of Vanity Fair for libel in stating that the Duke's father (who was an army pork contractor) had put the bodies of dead soldiers into the meat casks, counsel should have mentioned to the Court that a similar accusation had been made against St. George, who was an army bacon contractor (vide Times report).

The conclusion of the Sompting version is not so threatening, for the speech of "Johnny Jack" proceeds after the second line:—

Whilst in a third version (supplied by a Brighton Tipteerer) the last character says:—

It seems not improbable that this play is sometimes performed at other times of the year, and especially on May Day. , F.R.Met.Soc.