Whetstone.
I can beat Achilles’ shield all hollow. I’ve brought my album, with photographs of my houses, stores, banks, farms, academy, and prize cattle. Here it is. [Displaying a large album.] But come, my boy, again explain. Why am I called the Horn of Plenty?
Bluegrass.
Horn of Plenty signifies wealth. Remember, we are now walking in a romance, and explanations are like stumbling-blocks in a dream. One must imagine more than he sees.
Enter Scythe with glass, examining Whetstone, and especially
Jack, among the masqueraders.
Whetstone.
Then she might imagine I was a dinner-horn, a trombone-horn, a tooting-horn, the moon’s horn, a horned beast, or some other horn, or that I took a horn as a matter of business.
Bluegrass.
Don’t talk of business; stick to your character.
Whetstone.