[ACT III.]
Enter Schmidt, carrying carpet-bag.
Schmidt. I vonder vether I can find a place vere I can sleep tonight. Here is an hotel. I will just ring the bell. (he sets carpet-bag on stage and rings the bell.)
Teddy (pokes his head through the window, says). I say, you there, what are you doing ringing dat bell all this time for?
Schmidt. What, you old black nigger, come at last?
Teddy. How dare you insult? Call me no nigger. I’m de colored man from de South; and what do you want, I say?
Schmidt. Yaw! What you want with yat black face through dat window? Come right out here; I vant to talk business.
Teddy. Who are you calling black? Who rang dat bell?
Schmidt. I’ve walked von thirty-five mile this day, and I want von place to sleep down on.