Now let the heathen rage: their pet sea-level

Canal has gone a-glimmering to the devil.

[Enter Loeb with a card.]

What’s this? “The Adversary.” Just my luck—

Without a rake I get all kinds of muck.

Always that Democrat appears if I

But mention him—I really wonder why.

Of one too many he’s the one. Go say

(sighing)

That I’ll not see him—I’ve seen Shonts to-day.