We have already seen that, in his "Quadrupeds of Quedlinburgh," Colman junior extracted some fun out of scenes in "The Stranger," "Pizarro," and "Timour the Tartar." The first of these plays was made the subject of more elaborate satire in 1868, when Mr. Robert Reece wrote for the New Queen's Theatre his burlesque called "The Stranger, Stranger than Ever!" This, with Miss Santley as Peter, Mr. Lionel Brough as the Stranger, and Miss Henrietta Hodson as Mrs. Haller, had many points of attraction. In this _reductio ad absurdum_ the lady's chief complaint is that her husband first neglected her and then deserted her, taking away the children. Moreover, "he taught the infants all the comic songs," and so, "instead of gloating over Peter Parley, the boy declared himself as Champagne Charley." In despair the deserted one set to work and took in washing:-- You'll ask, "why washing?"--give your fancy scope: In that profession while there's life there's _soap_! Was I to live?--of course came this suggestion! "_Tub_ be or not _tub_ be?" that _was_ the question. So with a will I turned me to my work, Carried a _blue bag_ like a lawyer's clerk; Yet still I grieved--the trade's of woe prolific, I couldn't sleep, for all this _soap-horrific_; Hard was my lot, for I could plainly see My source of living must end _sud_-denly; And in her downward course, say, what could stop her Whose sole subsistence was a single _copper_? As usual with Mr. Reece, the puns are excellent. Tobias says of the stranger that Each evening you may see him sitting so, Under that _linden when the sun was low_; On close inspection, too, you'll also see His noble _eye, sir, rolling rapidly_. Then the Stranger says to Peter:-- Mrs. Haller's gifts you showed, As hint that _I_ should help you _Haller-mode_. To the Countess he remarks:-- Madam, this river-water's _eau-de-riverous_! And of his children he says:-- They're fighting through their alphabet. Oh, lor! I quit them in their _A-B-C-nian war_! Of his wife:-- When first I married thee (then somewhat shady), Oh, Adelaide! I thought I _had a lady_! But, in truth, there is no end to these _jeux-de-mots_. "Pizarro," which nowadays has quite gone out of the theatrical repertory, was dealt with from the comic point of view by Leicester Buckingham, whose "Pizarro, or the Leotard of Peru," was seen at the Strand in 1862, with Johnny Clarke as the hero, and Miss Swanborough, Miss Charlotte Saunders, Miss Bufton, Miss Fanny Josephs, Miss Fanny Hughes, and Rogers, in other parts. Of the "literature" of this piece the following is a very fair example: it is supposed to be spoken by Rolla:--