_Mer._ Shut up, will you, now! I’ve only doubled, don’t you make a row.
_Mer._ Don’t puzzle yourselves, I’ll straightway make it clear. You know the Spiritualists hold meeting here; You rapped me, and I went, is that not plain? So with another _wrap_, I come again.
_Cap._ Entranced youth, you are not wanted here, So quickly you had better disappear. I want my daughter--
_Mer._ So does Romeo too; And he shall have her straight, in spite of you.
_Cap._ Come, sir, you meddle! Mind what you’re about! I’m a belligerent--
_Mer._ Oh! that’s played out. It will not do all wrongs to redress: You’ll find America in any mess. So, Romeo, take your wife, and pack your bag; We’ll give you shelter ’neath a starry flag.
_Rom._ What say you, Juliet? shall we westward go? Speak up, my darling, do not color so.
_Jul._ I like those colors well, I do confess: Those stripes are just the style of my new dress.
_Rom._ To seek that blissful land, I think we’d orter.
_Jul._ But I’m so horrid sick upon the water!
_Mer._ Come, Capulet, your blessing I command; Then pack up trunks, and off for Yankee land.
_Cap._ What! end a tragedy without a death? It’s horrible: you take away my breath!
_Mer._ Then we shall have one sure, let’s move along: We’ll end our tragedy with a yachting song.
_Finale, “A Yankee Ship and a Yankee Crew.”_
A Yankee yacht and a Yankee crew, Tally, hi, ho, you know, Can beat the world on the waters blue. Sing high, aloft and alow. Her sails are spread to the fairy breeze, The spray sparkling as thrown from her prow; Her flag is the proudest that floats o’er the seas; Her way homeward she’s steering now.
_Chorus._--A Yankee ship and a Yankee crew, &c.
[1] Half a cheese box covered with cotton cloth, on which is painted a very jolly face, with the letters S. T. 1860 X. upon it, illuminated by a candle placed behind, and drawn up by a pully and string, is the original moon prepared for this piece.
[2] The pianist or leader of the orchestra.
WALDIMER WIGGINS (the seventh son of a seventh son). GUNNYBAG GREENBAX, } Wiggins’ patients. NERVOUS ASPEN, } MAJOR FINGERS (a discontented Bridegroom). CHARLES FREEDLEY (a dissatisfied heir). HARRY QUILLDRIVER (an author). HERBERT EASEL (his friend). DENNIS MCGRATH (the Doctor’s help). BOB (the Doctor’s boy).