This is the thing we want to see;

These high upper boxes are fiddle-de-dee,

And we don’t care a snap for your piteous plea,

And there really must be

A nice P. I. T.”

Bancroft the manager tries to speak,

But his voice is drowned in a shout and a shriek.

“A P. I. T.

Won’t pay,” says he;

“There’s the company, scenery, taxes, and rent,