TEXAS THEODORE, Lover.

JULIA CHELSEA, Heroine from Lynn.

DINAH, Nurse to JULIA CHELSEA.

SCENE. - Blackstone Alley.

(Enter THEODORE playing a jews-harp, who sees JULIA seated at the window of a hen-coop, eating hoe-cake, and playing on the ozone. 1)

THEO. There she is at the window,

While beneath thy window passing,

You stole my heart away.

JULIA. Vot ish de matter mit de vild vaves?

THEO. 'Tis night o'er the stormy waters.

JULIA. Where art thou now, my beloved?

Canst thou not come at my call?

THEO. (aside). I cannot call, for I haven't a pair.

JULIA. The man in the moon is looking.

THEO. Fair moon, to thee I sing.

JULIA. Oh! how I suffer!

THEO. Hear me, Norma; in pity hear me.

JULIA (looking up over a barn).

In the sky the bright stars glitter.

THEO. All that glitters is not gold.

O Jane, O Jane, my pretty Jane!

JULIA (startled, drops hoe-cake. THEODORE takes the cake).

Hark! I hear a voice.

THEO. It is I, love, - it is I, love,

Murmuring thy dear name o'er.

JULIA. Murmur softly, sweet and low,

Mother sleeps.

THEO. What did little birdie say?

Will I meet her at the bar?

JULIA. I am tired now and sleepy too.

THEO. Go to sleep, my baby.

JULIA. What voice is that so gently to me calling?

THEO. Whist! whist! whist! it is the boogy man!

DINAH (within).

Get away from that window, my love and my dove.

JULIA. I will meet you in the sweet bye-and-bye.

Theodore, defend thee!

Hearest thou?

THEO. I thought I heard a noise; but no, all is still.

JULIA. Flee as a bird to your mountain.

THEO. Maid of Athens, ere we part,

Let me kiss thine eyelids down.

JULIA. You're getting a big boy now.

Get away, get along, go ever so far,

You wear a penny flower in your coat, Lardy Dar.

THEO. Homeless, tattered and tanned,

Nay, bid me not resign love.

Oh, naughty, naughty Clawa,

I'll strike you with a feathaw.

How can I bear to leave thee.

JULIA. Tommy, O Tommy, don't go,

The clock in the steeple strikes one.

THEO. What! my grandfather's clock?

(He collapses in an ash-barrel. JULIA falls out of the window.)

DINAH (within). Another note and you die.

THEO. I die, I die;

See that my grave's kept green.

(Cocks crow and the morning sun comes peeping over the hills.)

1 An instrument lately introduced in the Pierian Sodality by a medical student, and murmuring, "Somebody's coming when the dew-drops fall."