_Together._ When the sun is high, We come out to ply, Nobody is nigh, All is mirth and j’y! With a pairosol, We’ll protect our doll, Make a mossy bed For her wooden head! [_Combination step-dance during which both watch their feet with an air of detached and slightly amused interest, as if they belonged to some other persons._ Clickity-clack, clickity-clack, clickity, clickity, clickity-clack; clackity-clickity, clickity-clackity, clackity-clickity-_clack_! [_Repeat ad. lib._ _Bl._ (_apologetically to Audience_). Her taste in dress is rather plain! (_Dances._) Tippity-tappity, &c. _Br._ (_in pitying aside_). It _is_ a pity she’s so vain! (_Dances._) Tippity-tappity, &c. _Bl._ ’Tis a shime to smoile, But she’s shocking stoyle, It is quite a troyal, Still--she mikes a foil! _Br._ Often I’ve a job To suppress a sob, She is such a snob, When she meets a nob! [_Step-dance as before._ [N.B.--_In consideration of the well-known difficulty that most popular Variety-Artists experience in the metrical delivery of decasyllabic couplets, the lines which follow have been written as they will most probably be spoken._ _Bl._ (_looking off with alarm_). Why, here comes Fanny Furbelow, a new frock from Paris in! She’ll find me with Brunette--it’s _too_ embarrassing! [_Aside._ (_To Brunette._) Brunette, my love, I know _such_ a pretty game we’ll play at-- Poor Timburina’s ill, and the seaside she ought to stay at. (The Serpentine’s the seaside, let’s pretend.) And _you_ shall take her there--(_hypocritically_)--you’re such a friend! _Br._ (_with simplicity_). Oh, yes, that _will_ be splendid, Blanchidine, And then we can go and have a dip in a bathing-machine! [BLAN. _resigns the wooden doll to_ BRUN., _who skips off with it_, L., _as_ FANNY FURBELOW _enters_ R., _carrying a magnificent wax doll_. _Fanny_ (_languidly_). Ah, howdy do--_isn’t_ this heat too frightful? And so you’re quite alone? _Bl._ (_nervously._) Oh, _quite_--oh yes, I always am alone, when there’s nobody with me. [_This is a little specimen of the Lady’s humorous “gag,” at which she is justly considered a proficient._ _Fanny_ (_drawling_). Delightful! When I was wondering, only a little while ago, If I should meet a creature that I know; Allow me--my new doll, the Lady Minnie! [_Introducing doll._ _Bl._ (_rapturously_). Oh, what a perfect love!