EUCLID. Mowbray! Mowbray! here! You did not come in a basket, and see my wife? RECK. Yes, but I did though. EUCLID. Then there's nobody killed, tol-de-rol! Fanny, there's nobody killed. _Enter MRS. FACILE and JULIA, R._ JULIA. De Mowbray! RECK. Reckless, dear Julia, if you please. HOLD. Yes, my dear, he is a gentleman of whom I approve, and you may take him as soon as you please. TOM. And, Fanny, we cannot do better than follow so good an example. (_takes her hand._) FABLE. A monstrous pleasant joke. Catch me here again in a hurry. HOLD. What's all this about a basket? EUCLID. Why this gentleman has been twice killed. I'll tell you all at breakfast; now let us retire to rest after the troubles of this eventful night, and contrive not to dream. FANNY. At any rate not of bottles and baskets. EUCLID. And now, ladies and gentlemen, that you've seen my friend, Reckless "Twice Killed," let us hope that you will, at length, allow him to live uninterruptedly--uninterruptedly, did I say? No; for if my innocent delinquencies did serve to amuse you, I shall feel the greatest pleasure in killing him twice more to-morrow. TOM., FAN., MRS. F., EUC., JULIA, RECK., HOLD., FAB. R. L. CURTAIN. Transcriber's Note This transcription is based on images digitized by Google from a copy made available by the Ohio State University and posted by the HathiTrust at: catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100593073 Because a few page scans had text cut off next to the margin, this transcription has been compared with the text posted by the Victorian Plays Project at: victorian.nuigalway.ie/modx/assets/docs/pdf/Vol24xivTwice.pdf In general, this transcription attempts to retain the punctuation and spelling of the source text. Variant spellings have been retained, including "calender," "terrestial," "accomodation," and "dosing" (for "dozing"), as have inconsistent spellings such as "lattitude" and "latitude." Obvious errors have been corrected. The use of "its" and "it's" has been made consistent. The following changes were noted: - Frontispiece: The punctuation of the caption text has been made consistent with the script text. - p. 3: though it's utility exceeds it's beauty--Changed "it's" to "its" in both cases. - p. 5: its very unkind of you--Changed "its" to "it's". - p. 6: "X plus Y. equal to--"--Deleted the period after "Y". - p. 8: [_MEN do so and exeunt., L. H._--Deleted the period after "_exeunt_". - p. 13: FANNY. (_screams,_) Oh!--Changed the comma after "_screams_" to a period. - p. 14: I was rowing past a quarter of ah hour ago.--Changed "ah" to "an". - p. 17: Mr. Feargus Fable, my old friend's son, will be here in a minute--Changed "Feargus" to "Fergus" for consistency. - p. 17: what is the lattitude of Petersburgh.--Changed the period after "Petersburgh" to a question mark. - p. 20: Careless slut, what did you drop the tray for:--Changed the colon after "for" to a question mark.