Excerpt from Hours With the Players, Vol. 2 of 2
Perhaps (for who can guess the effects of chance Here Hunt may box or Mahomet may dance.
Even more deplorable events, still more beyond the prospect of Mr. Baddeley's belief, were to happen. He could not possibly have dreamt that his Twelfth-cake Would ever fall a prey to foreign invaders, to a troop of F rench performers. Yet the Twelfth N ight of 1849 saw Drury Lane Theatre converted into a circus, and in the possession of F ranconi's equestrian company from the Paris Cirque. On that occasion the Twelfth-cake, wine.
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