The shattered remains, with upwards of two thousand pistoles in bank, embarked for Carolina, to join another company at Charlestown, but were cast away in the voyage.

Had the company been more blessed with the virtue of sobriety, &c., they might perhaps have lived to carry home the liberality of those generous islanders." It is to be observed that the strolling profession had its divisions and grades.

The "boothers," as they are termed, have to be viewed as almost a distinct class.

These carry their theatre, a booth, about with them, and only pretend to furnish very abridged presentments of the drama.

With them "Richard III.," for instance, is but an entertainment of some twenty minutes' duration.