Young Scamp

Young Scamp is a sketch in one scene by Charles White ()[].

Also found as The Young Scamp in South Africa (See Bosman, 1980).

This is not to be confused with The Young Scamp, or My Grandmother's Pet by Edward Stirling.

The original text

It is apparently a Christy's style piece, described as an Ethiopian sketch or Negro farce in various sources. Published as no 85 in De Witt's Ethiopian and Comic Drama.

1868: Performed by the Young Men’s Institute Amateur Christy’s in either the Mutual Hall or the Cape Town Institute and Club, Cape Town. (Billed as a "Negro farce")

Sources

Listing of De Witt's Ethiopian and Comic Drama De Witt's in The Publishers' Trade List Annual, Volume 11[1]

Listing of De Witt's Ethiopian and Comic Drama in the De Witt's 18** published text of the play Black and White (Wilkie Collins and Charles Fechter)[2]