Gray. (Aside.) I should think not.

White. Come, Mr. Singing-master, you try a stanza.

Fred. What, sir! do you want to shirk your task? Sing away.

Gray. (Sings.)

"And so the teacher turned him out;

Yet still he lingered near." (Snaps.)

White. "Shouting the battle-cry of freedom."

Gray.

"And waited patiently about,

Till Mary did appear." (Snaps.)