Fer Ilsie and fer me! Amen!
Katie—No, no, Patsy, the amen didn’t belong there.
Patsy—(running to his mother) Oll roight, Katie, you kin take it aff! (All laugh.)
Mr. Opperman—He von smart poy was, aretty, vor year old, ain’t it?
Bridget—Thank yez kindly, Mr. Opperman, he was that, jist loike the feyther av him. Oi always did say thot Pat wud have made a foine orayter if he’d had the iddycation fer thot same.
Katie—Nixt is a song of Italy in the original Eyetalian, by Mrs. Carlotta Ferrari. (Carlotta may sing any little Italian song, or a bit from one of the Italian operas.)
Katie—Nixt is a rale darkey breakdown, as danced on the Southern plantashins at Christmas time. Danced by Caesar Augustus Lincoln Washington. His dady will accompany him on the banjo, a rale truly Southern instermint, which he brung from Alabamy. (Pompey plays and Caesar dances, cuts “pigeon wings,” etc., and ends up with an elaborate bow to the audience, then walks on his hands to his seat.)
Katie—Nixt is a recitation by Miss Ilsie Strauss.
Elsie—