A Fairy Play for Fairy People. MAIDEN MONA THE MERMAID. A Fairy Play for Fairy People. BY F. A. D. [Illustration] TORONTO: BELFORD BROS., PUBLISHERS. MDCCCLXXVII. DUDLEY & BURNS, PRINTERS. HUNTER, ROSE & CO., BOOKBINDERS. TO THE _CHILDREN OF THEIR EXCELLENCIES_, THE EARL AND COUNTESS OF DUFFERIN. THE Merry Little Party of Actors, FOR Whose Christmas Fun these Plays are Written, THIS LITTLE VOLUME, _With this a sole excuse for its nonsense_, IS Affectionately Dedicated. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MAIDEN MONA THE MERMAID. DRAMATIS PERSONÆ. THE GNOME KING.—_A penniless potentate who used to play first fiddle, but has lost his key._ O’ROOSTER THE AUDACIOUS.—_High Cockolorum. Master of the (rocking) Horse. First Lord of the Shaving Brush. Gold Stick in w(h)aiting to the King, and a warm stick, in plaster to Coquettina, Q.E.D.; R.S.V.P.; R.I.P.; etc., etc., etc._ GENERAL BOUNCE.—_No relation to General De Billy Tee._ CAPTAIN POUNCE.—_Not Kept-in-pounds, shillings and pence, alas! Too poor to “mawwy._” NOODLE,│_Twins and orphans; without, strange to say, a single parent DOODLE.│left, (of course, a single pair ain’t right.) Their prospects, │however, are in a fine pickle, which is something._ MONA THE MERMAID.—_Only a mer(e)maid she. The Queen of dainty, wee things. Fresh from the seething waves. The last sweet thing in sea things._ M-R-T-N T-PP-R. COQUETTINA.—_The Maid of the Mil(itary). Such a pet!_ THE FAIRY OF THE FOREST.—“_The meet little cherub who sits up aloft And takes care of the life of poor Jack._” (_Mr. Noodle._) SH-K-SP-R. CORALINA.—_A duodecimo edition of a darling._ CAST OF CHARACTERS. GOVERNMENT HOUSE OTTAWA New Year’s Day, 1877.