Bedad, Oi’m glad it’s Christmas time.
Oi’m glad we’ve got a tree.
Oi’m glad that something on it hangs,
Fer Ilsie and fer me! Amen!
KATIE—No, no, Patsy, the amen didn’t belong there.
PATSY—(_running to his mother_) Oll roight, Katie, you kin take it aff!
(_All laugh._)
MR. OPPERMAN—He von smart poy was, aretty, vor year old, ain’t it?
BRIDGET—Thank yez kindly, Mr. Opperman, he was that, jist loike the
feyther av him. Oi always did say thot Pat wud have made a foine
orayter if he’d had the iddycation fer thot same.
KATIE—Nixt is a song of Italy in the original Eyetalian, by Mrs.
Carlotta Ferrari. (_Carlotta may sing any little Italian song, or a bit
from one of the Italian operas._)
KATIE—Nixt is a rale darkey breakdown, as danced on the Southern
plantashins at Christmas time. Danced by Caesar Augustus Lincoln
Washington. His dady will accompany him on the banjo, a rale truly
Southern instermint, which he brung from Alabamy. (_Pompey plays and
Caesar dances, cuts “pigeon wings,” etc., and ends up with an elaborate
bow to the audience, then walks on his hands to his seat._)
KATIE—Nixt is a recitation by Miss Ilsie Strauss.