DRAWING ROOMS, SECOND FLOOR, AND ATTICS. _A Farce,_ IN ONE ACT. BY JOHN MADDISON MORTON, ESQ., (_Member of the Dramatic Authors' Society_), AUTHOR OF Lend me Five Shillings, Three Cuckoos, Catch a Weazel, Where there's a Will there's a Way, John Dobbs, A Most Unwarrantable Intrusion, Going to the Derby, Your Life's in Danger, Midnight Watch, Box and Cox, Trumpeter's Wedding, Done on Both Sides, Poor Pillicoddy, Old Honesty, Young England, King and I, My Wife's Second Floor, Who do they take me for? The Thumping Legacy, Milliners' Holiday, Wedding Breakfast, Irish Tiger, Attic Story, Who's the Composer? Who's my Husband? Slasher and Crasher, Prince for an Hour, Away with Melancholy, Waiting for an Omnibus, Betsy Baker, Who Stole the Pocket-Book? Two Bonnycastles, From Village to Court, Grimshaw, Bagshaw, and Bradshaw, Rights and Wrongs of Women, Sent to the Tower, Our Wife, Brother Ben, Take Care of Dowb--, Wooing One's Wife, Margery Daw, The Double-Bedded Room, the "Alabama," &c. &c. THOMAS HAILES LACY, 89, STRAND, LONDON, _W.C._ DRAWING ROOMS, &c. _First performed at the Royal Princess's Theatre, (under the management of Mr. George Vining), on Easter Monday, the_ 28_th of March,_ 1864. _Characters._ TRIPTOLEMUS BROWN Mr. DAVID FISHER. MR. BUNNY (_a retired Furrier_) Mr. H. MELLON. MR. COCKLETOP Mr. C. SEYTON. CAPTAIN HARDAPORT Mr. H. FORRESTER. LUKE SHARP (_a Pastrycook's Assistant_) Mr. R. CATHCART. JONATHAN (_Servant to Mr. Bunny_) Mr. CHAPMAN. CAROLINE BUNNY Miss EMMA BARNETT. ARABELLA HARDAPORT (_a Miliner_) Miss REBECCA POWELL. PHOEBE FURBELOW (_niece to Jonathan_) Miss HELEN HOWARD. _Time in Performance_--45 _minutes._ COSTUMES OF THE DAY. DRAWING ROOMS, SECOND FLOOR, AND ATTICS. SCENE FIRST.--_Interior of an Attic. Small door at L. flat; small attic window at C., shewing the slanting roof of a house beyond, with two large chimney pots, &c._ _At the rising of the curtain, PHOEBE is discovered on chair, R., taking down linen, which is hanging up on a line, and depositing it in a clothes basket at her side._ PHOEBE. (_singing_) I'm off to Charlestown early in the morning; I'm off to Charlestown, and little time to stay; Then give my respects to all the pretty yellar girls; I'm off to Charlestown before the break of day. _The small door, L. C., opens, and JONATHAN appears--he has a house broom in one hand._ JONATHAN. Ah! there's my pretty, merry-hearted little bird, chirruping away as usual. PHOEBE. Yes, uncle Jonathan, and now that you _are_ here, you'll help your "little bird" to take down her clothes line, won't you? (_gets down_)