Bennett—Where were your parents born?
John—In poor old Ireland.
Bennett—Why did they leave their country?
John—Because liberty was dead, and the people starving, and sorely oppressed by tyrants.
Bennett—Who crushed the liberty of Ireland?
John—England, Scotland, and Wales.
Bennett—That will do, my boy, and I am pleased with your intelligence and love of liberty, though you should not denounce the glorious Scotland, because your grandfather came from its pretty vales and majestic mountains.
John—If Scotland and Wales had sympathised with Ireland, and fought her battles for freedom, the sweetest and greenest Isle of all the earth would now be free like my dear America, and Scotland and Wales could also have enjoyed the blessings of liberty.
Enter Washer Woman.