Page:Parodyoniolanthe.djvu/28

 Or it never could have such a character won, Said I to myself, said I.

TREPHON—It 's too bad to be taken from Phyllis just when she was my own.

OLANTHE—What, my son in tears upon his wedding-day!

TREPHON—The Counselor, who is Phyllis's guardian, separates us forever.

OLANTHE—Oh, if he only knew No matter. The Queen of our road and its fairies shall protect you. See, here they come. (Enter 

TREPHON—The little girl I love has caught me talking to another.

LL—Oh, fie! Strephon is a rogue.

TREPHON—But then, upon my honor, that other is my mother.

TREPHON— She wont believe my statement, and declares we must be parted, Although I 'm just as true as an Alton train when started; And if she gets another hub, a brakeman, broken-hearted, I shall be, taradiddle dee, taradiddle dee.

UEEN— You cruel and heartless counselor to part them from each other; You 've done him an injustice, for this lady is his mother.

OUNSELOR—— That yarn requires obesity its thinness well to cover; I did n't see her face, but he acted like her lover. And how could she, at seventeen, be an Alton brakeman's mother?