Jane. Oh, Tommy, aren't you half afraid you've ate enough to poison you?

Tommy. No, that I'm not—so there now! &c., &c.

[They dance as before.

Tommy. Jane, is your palate parching up in horrible aridity?

Jane. It is, and in my throat's a lump of singular solidity.

Tommy. Then that is why you're dancing with such pokerlike rigidity.

[Refrain as before; they dance with decreasing spirit, and finally stop, and fan one another with their hats.

Jane. I'm better now that on my brow there is a little breeziness.

Tommy. My passing qualm is growing calm, and tightness turns to easiness.

Jane. You seem to me tormented by a tendency to queasiness?