Brighton is a pretty street, Worthing is much taken; If you can't get any other meat There's Hogsflesh and Bacon. The Drury Lane authorities do not seem to have considered the failure as absolute as did Lamb, for on the next day--December 11--the bills announced:-- *** The New Farce of Mr. H----, performed for the first time last night, was received by an overflowing audience with universal applause, and will be repeated for the second time to-morrow. But the next evening's bill--December 12, 1806--stated that "The New Farce of Mr. H---- is withdrawn at the request of the author." "Mr. H----" did not then disappear altogether from the stage. A correspondent of _Notes and Queries_, May 26, 1855, remembered seeing it at Philadelphia when he was a boy. The last scene, he says, particularly amused the audience. And in William B. Wood's _Personal Recollections of the Stage_, 1855, it is recorded of the Philadelphia Theatre, of which he was manager, that in 1812, "Charles Lamb's excellent farce of 'Mr. H----' met with extraordinary success, and was played an unusual number of nights." Lamb, however, did not profit thereby. The little play was published in Philadelphia in 1813 under the title _Mr. H----, or Beware a Bad Name. A farce in two acts, as performed at the Philadelphia Theatre_--Lamb's name not figuring in any way in connection with it. In England "Mr. H----" was not revived until 1885, when, as a curiosity, it was played by the Dramatic Students' Society. The performance was held at the Gaiety on October 27, 1885, the prologue being spoken by a gentleman made up to resemble Lamb. At the Cheadle Town Hall on October 19 and 20, 1910, "Mr. H----" was given again, with the difference that the secret of the name was disclosed from the start. In _Notes and Queries_, August 3, 1889, the following amusing play-bill was printed, contributed by Mr. Bertram Dobell:--