WID. I hope you were not in the water-butt with her; but, never mind, I don't want any further explanation. I've had my lesson--(_to Audience_)--and I hope you have all profited by it. Now, if there's any single, good-looking young fellow here, wants a bit of advice. Eh--there's my friend, Smith. Smith, my dear boy, when you invite a female friend to a quiet bit of supper, mind there's no water-butt on the premises; and I mention this confidentially to all you bachelors, if your laundress is young and pretty, you had better pay your washing bills regularly; and don't, like me, get yourself into a scrape, by not knowing "How to Settle Accounts with Your Laundress." _Disposition of the Characters at the Fall of the Curtain._ CHERI BOUNCE. BROWN. MARY W. WIDGETTS. TWILL. R. L. Transcriber's Note This transcription is based on pp. 11-19 of Dicks' Standard Plays No. 1006. The images used in this transcription have been posted on the Internet Archive at: archive.org/details/CoyneLaundress In addition, a microform copy of the same edition, which was made available by the University of California, Davis, was used as a secondary source. In general, this transcription attempts to retain the formatting, punctuation and spelling of the source text. In a few cases where the quality of the printing made a word or a punctuation mark hard to read, the obvious reading was considered the correct reading without comment. A few changes were made to smooth out some of the inconsistent editing of the source text. The following changes were made: -- p. 11: (Widgett's Page and Light Porter)--Changed "Widgett's" to "Widgetts'". -- p. 13: since the evening I danced with her at the Casino. (_Calls,_) Twill!--Changed the comma after "_Calls_" to a period. -- p. 14: MARY. And your remember how we used to go together to Greenwich--Change "your" to "you". -- p. 14: law! how we use to laugh to be sure!--Changed "use" to "used". -- p. 14: and a heap of beautiful thing.--Changed "thing" to "things". -- p. 15: to wring my heart and mangle my affections like that, (_Sobbing._)--Changed the comma after "that" to a period. -- p. 15: (_Lays his hands on his bosom._--Added a closing parenthesis for consistency. -- p. 16: you don't mean to say your agoing to sup here?--Changed "your" to "you're". -- p. 16: (_Pushes her again into the chair._ (_Aside._)--Deleted the opening parenthesis before "_Aside_". -- p. 17: _Enter two WAITERS, L, carrying tray with supper, covered dishes, plates, bottles, &c._--Inserted a period after "L". -- p. 17: Its only, "Coming, sir, in _one_ minute..."--Changed "Its" to "It's". -- p. 17: Pulls a handful of the hair out of the chair-seat, goes to to the chimney-glass--Deleted the second "to" after "goes". -- p. 17: You've particular business with him.--Changed the period to a question mark.