“I have come to ask you for your hand.”
“I have only two. I have none to spare—I need them both!” the maiden cries.
“O, car-r-ses! car-r-ses! and once again car-r-ses! Can nothing thaw you?” the villain thus speaks.
“You are a bum actor. I cannot give you a hand. I can only give you the frozen face.”
“Filed—foiled! in act first, but watch my smoke in act two.” Curtain, VERY quick curtain.
ACT II
Scene 2: Same as in Act I, only more so.
The snow is still snowing. Nothing is heard but the howling of the audience—howling of the wind. Enter the villain and Mickey the Mouse. Villain bribes The Mouse to kidnap the heroine, tie her to the cold, cold snow, go down to the river, bring it back, and make the heroine take a cold plunge—to death.
Mickey the Mouse accepts. Enter Chasem Cheese, the brave detective. He has been on the trail of the mouse so long that he has grown stale.
The Mouse smells Mr. Cheese. Exit The Mouse. Cheese follows closely, still strong on the scent.