THE CURTAIN FALLS Before the week was out the only topic in which the town took any interest was "The Beggar's Opera," and the "all Conquering Polly," as an advertisement setting forth the attractions of a miniature screen designed as a memento of the opera, had it.

In a score of ways enterprising tradesmen adapted the scenes and the songs to their wares and in all Polly was the principal feature.

Polly became the fashion everywhere.

Amateur flautists played her songs, amateur vocalists warbled them.

Hardly a week passed without one daily journal or the other burst into verse in her praise.
As for Polly herself she was inundated with love letters, some written seriously, others purely out of admiration.