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The airs introduced into this burlesque were selected on account of their being for the most part old and hackneyed, and at the tip of everybody's tongue. They were chosen for the convenience of those rough and ready amateurs who get up a thing of the kind in a back drawing-room at two day's notice. Of course, if you are ambitious, and have plenty of time to do it in, you can “go in” for operatic and concerted pieces of a complicated description. Only, you will have to write your own words.