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 UEEN—O you shameful flirts, always running after those railway men. Don't you know it 's death to marry a mortal?

EILA—If it were, you 'd have to execute all of us; but who would n't fall in love with a railroad man?

EILA—Especially a Chicago & Alton man, and we are not all as tough as you are.

UEEN—Am I tough? Look at that daisy! (Pointing to ) Who are you, sir?

ILLIS—Ticket-taker Willis of the Chicago & Alton Railroad.

UEEN—You 're a fine fellow, sir.

ILLIS—Yes, mum, I belong to the Alton.

UEEN—(Starts)—The Alton! Ah! I, too, am not insensible to the charms of manly beauty. Look at that man! He is a fair specimen of the Alton employés—a perfect picture.

ILLIS—Yes, mum, I am generally admired, although I do not compare favorably with my fellow-employés. The standard of beauty is very high on this road. (Modestly retires.)

UEEN—The road has taste—(To the Now here is a man belonging to the first road in the Union, whose physical beauty eclipses Apollo's. If I yielded to a natural impulse, I should at once be mashed by that man. But I mortify this inclination; I wrestle with it,—I subdue it, ha! ha! This is how I suppress my inclinations.

O foolish fay, Think you, because his jacket gay My bosom thaws, I 'd disobey Our fairy laws? Because I fly The road above, you think that I This man could love.

Type of Chicago & Alton, This heart of mine