Could scrap the steel, the copper and the lead;

If we fought it out with pick-'andles and fists,

If the good old times would only come agin,

When there weren't no dirty trenches with their rats and lice and stenches,

Why, a month 'ud see us whoopin' through Berlin!


SPOOP.

A REPERTORY DRAMA IN ONE ACT.

["A repertory play is one that is unlikely to be repeated."—Old Saying.]