That the three young men they smiled and said--
“It’s a lucky thing that he cut out me,
For his wife is a shrew as we all can see.”[[5]]
Three wise men, but they smiled enough for ten,
And they laughed enough for twenty, these wise young men.[[6]]
TABLEAUX.
[1]. Parlor scene, with lady on one side of the room, the lovers in waiting--each in turn approaching and being rejected, retire to a seat to “sit and sigh.”
[2]. Shows the young men only; having changed their positions they are doing a general “languishing” business.
[3]. The young lady in center of foreground receives suitor No. 4, who comes on “bended knee.”
[4]. Shows the first three young men in center of front, hands in pockets--frowning and scowling.