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Title: Theatrical and circus life;
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Jennings, John Joseph, 1853-1909. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Theater Circus
Publisher: Chicago, Laird & Lee
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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THATCHER, PRIMROSE AND WEST. or attracting the notice of strangers, many extraordi-nary exploits are to be witnessed. Plenty of drink, 408 VARIETY DIVES AND CONCERT SALOONS. however, is necessary to stimulate the fun, and whenthe girls <M an old victim into their clutches theyplay him so nicely that he believes the whole lot
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A bowery on a lark. of them are in love with him, and every few minutescomes the cry, Lets have another bottle, and they VARIETY DIVES AND CONCERT SALOONS. 409 have it. They sit on his lap or play circus riding onhis shoulders, and until the last bottle has come, andthe victim has run dry of funds they keep him in goodhumor; then they show him the door, coldly say Ta, ta! Baldy, and laugh heartily at his verdantinnocence as he staggers away. The man who allows any of these women — thesecancan dancers or chair sweaters —to entice him totheir home is lost. If he has money and they know itthey will not take him to their home, but to somelodging-house with the proprietor of which the can-can dancer is acquainted, and whom she knows shecan trust. A pitcher of beer and a bit of druggingfor the victims glass does the business. While she isstroking his beard and kissing the end of his nose thedrug is flowing gently into the goblet of beer. Theydrink, and in a short time the soporific has

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