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...abounded with anachronisms and absurdities which made it all the more amusing. Romulus and Remus are in love with Proserpina; they fight a duel about her, and Remus is killed; Romulus descends to Hades to recover his brother's soul, and finds Proserpina there on the same errand; Pluto falls in love with Proserpina and refuses to let her return to earth; the difficulty of providing a bridal trousseau is solved by the property manager, and the play ends in a blaze of red fire and a wild dance of demons, and condemned souls. Following is the cast: Romulus...
...Pluto's scrubby beard and all the stars of Olympus and the Boylston," shouted Epaminondas, "ye may be asy, me byes, 't is four aces I have! Whoop! whirra! "???! Well, I should cough!" And the general smiled a smile more dreadful than his own dreadful frown, and added that it reminded him strongly of Leuctra...
...Sent to Pluto's gloomy state...
...SCENE, Pluto's den. - D-N. Well, Mr. X., I sent you six summonses last week; why did n't you come...
...Pluto - what's this in the pocket...