“Hell! Well, you’ll have to be Santa Claus without the whiskers. No way out of it now. Somebody light the star, will you, Scenery. Will you git Araby set for this scene? Everybody clear off the stage, except Araby and the Three Wise Men. There they go!”
“Ho-oh-lee-e-e-e ni-i-i-i-ight,” wails the quartette.
Blunk!
“Si-eye-lent ni-i-i-i-ight,” wails the trio.
Whap!
“In the good old sum-mer-r-r-r ti-i-ime,” sings the duet, and then quits.
“Who hit Telescope and Henry Peck?” asks Muley, who sings tenor.
Comes the click of a gun, and then Tombstone Todd’s voice:
“I did! Whatcha goin’ to do about it, you hunk of leaf lard?”
“I’m goin’ to do the best I can without ’em, Tombstone.”