The girls had not succeeded in producing a great effect with the masculine costumes, because of insufficient material. But the boys had determined not to wear their ordinary clothes, no matter what happened; so Jack had donned one of Hop Yet’s blue blouses for his Sylvius dress, and had ready a plaid shawl to throw gracefully over one shoulder whenever he changed to the Banished Duke. His Sylvius attire was open to criticism, but no one could fail to admire his appearance as the Duke, on account of a magnificent ducal head-gear, from which soared a bunch of tall peacock feathers. ‘Oh, Jack, what a head-dress for a Duke!’ laughed Margery; ‘no wonder they banished you. Did you offend the court hatter?’ Phil said that at all events nobody could mistake him for anything but a fool, in his ‘Touchstone’ costume, and so he was jest-er going to be contented. Scott Burton was arranging Pancho’s toilette for the wrestling-match, and meanwhile trying to raise his drooping spirits; and Rosalind was vainly endeavouring to make Adam’s beard of grey moss stay on. While these antics were going on behind the scenes, the audience was seated on the knoll, making merry over the written programmes, which had been a surprise of Geoff’s, and read as follows:— THE PRINCESS’ THEATRE. July 10th, 188–. * * * * * APPEARANCE OF THE GREATEST DRAMATIC COMPANY ON EARTH (FACT). THE COOLEST THEATRE IN THE WORLD. * * * * * A Royal Galaxy and _Boyaxy_ of Artists in the play of _AS YOU LIKE IT_, By William Shakespeare, or Lord Bacon. * * * * * CAST. ‘_Alas_! _unmindful of their doom_, _the little victims play_; _No sense have they of ills to come_, _or cares beyond to-day_.’ ROSALIND The Lady Bell-Pepper. (Her greatest creation.) CELIA The Countess Paulina. PHŒBE The Duchess of Sweet Marjoram. AUDREY A talented Incognita of the Court. ORLANDO Hennery Irving Salvini Strong. (Late from the Blank Theatre, Oil City.) ADAM Dr. Paul Winship. (By kind permission of his manager, Mrs. T. W.) BANISHED DUKE / Lord John Howard Lightning Change SYLVIUS Artist. TOUCHSTONE / JACQUE Duke of Noble (_N.B._—The Duke of Noble has played the ‘fool’ five million times.) OLIVER Mr. Scott Burton. (Specially engaged.) CHARLES THE WRESTLER Pancho Muldoon Sullivan. (His first appearance.) The Comb Orchestra will play the Music of the Future.