Bluegrass [sings in recitative and plays].
See! see! the bold burglar. Help! help! He ascends! he ascends!
Fopdoodle [halting].
I—I—I, Augustus Fopdoodle, a bad burglar man! I—I, the son of my father, Fopdoodle! Pray, sweet Miss Violet, who are those rude, bad men?
Bluegrass [sings in recitative and plays].
We are a triangle, and we’ll make a parallelogram of you. We are—we are—an accurate right-angled triangle, and we’ll make, we’ll make, a p-a-r—par, a-l—paral, l-e-l—parallel, o—parallelo, g-r-a-m—parallelogram—of you.
Whetstone.
Get down off the ladder!
Fopdoodle.
’Tis the voice of the barbarian, Whetstone,—my animal noun, my enemy!