FROM

THE LIFE OF AN ACTOR.

COMPILED FROM THE JOURNALS, LETTERS, AND
MEMORANDA OF THE LATE

YANKEE HILL.

WITH ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS,

ENGRAVED ON WOOD BY J. W. ORR.

"Will you see the players well bestowed?"

I will use them according to their deserts."
"Odds Bodikins, man, much better. Use every man after his deserts,
and who shall 'scape a whipping?"

NEW-YORK:

GARRETT & CO., 18 ANN-STREET.

1853.

Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1853, by

C. HILL,

In the Clerk's office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New-York.