Katie—But yez kin say some dandy ones. Niver moind the Christmas part, Mr. Opperman. Jist spale off a funny one. (Mr. Opperman recites any comic poem in Dutch dialect.)
Mr. Opperman—Now id vos other poddy’s durn, aretty yet.
Katie—Yis, it’s Mickey’s. Masther Saint Michael McCarthy will now spake a ricitation. (Mickey recites “Santa’s Mistake.”)
Bridget—(at close) Sure, an’ I haven’t thin, Mickey, bye. Oi’d be proud to have a dozin as foine ones as me own three are, and if the ould Saint laves me anither Oi’ll kape me eyes on yez, Oi will thot.
Mickey—(looking over Katie’s shoulder) Nixt Luigi will play us a chune on his fiddle.
Katie—(pushing him) Be off wid yez! Is that a pretty way to say it, now? Nixt, is a violin doit, by the great Italian musishin—Misther Antonio Ferrari, and his son Masther Luigi ditto.
Luigi—Ditto not my name-a. (Antonio and Luigi play, Luigi playing second part, preferably something distinctly Italian. If desired, Carlotta and Bianca may sing, in Italian.)
Pat—I doos loike a good fiddle chune.
Katie—Nixt is a ricitation by Miss Thelma Omstrom. (Thelma recites “The Birdie’s Tree.”)