MOTHER. "You must leave your husband and come home and live with us." BROTHER. "Of course you must. You need not hesitate about a little thing like that. Go into the other room and consult the Doctor. Here comes your husband." (_Re-enter_ REASONING ANIMAL.) REASONING ANIMAL. "Her berrotherr! Herre!" BROTHER, "Yes. You can't support your wife. The Doctor says she needs nice parties and other necessaries of life. Give her to us, and go to California." REASONING ANIMAL. "I will. Bring her here till I embrace her. (_She is brought._) Farewell, my dear. I will go and make my fortune." WIFE. "Take our little girl with you." REASONING ANIMAL. "I will, for she needs a mother's care. Good-bye! Leave me to weep and wash the baby's face and hands alone." ACT I.--_Scene, a California mining-camp. Various miners of assorted nationalities--one of each--hard at work lying on the ground._ 1ST MINER. "I want more whiskey." CHORUS. "So do we." 2ND MINER. "MAY WILDROSE won't sell any more." CHORUS. "But she gives it to her lover." 3RD MINER. "He looks clean; he must have found a nugget. Let's kill him." 4TH MINER. "Sh--we will." (_Enter_ MAY WILDROSE--_which her name it is_ MISS LOTTA.) MAY. "Here comes my darling LIONEL. Let me get you some brandy, love." LIONEL. "Certainly, my dear. How full of forethought is a true woman's love!" CHORUS of MINERS. "She gives it to him, but not to us. Beware, young woman, or we will go back on you." MAY. "No you won't. My father earns a laborious living by making me keep a whiskey shop. We have a monopoly of the business, and you will have to buy of us, whether you like it or not. Get out of my sight, or I'll lick the whole boiling of you." (_They fly, and she returns to the parental whiskey shop._) LIONEL. "Night is coming on. I will go among the rocks; why, I don't know, but still I will go." (_Goes. Three miners follow and attack him._) LIONEL. "Save me, somebody." MAY. _Appearing suddenly with a revolver_--"You bet." (_She shoots the miners and brings down the curtain triumphantly._) ACT II.--_Scene--the whiskey shop of the_ REASONING ANIMAL.--LIONEL _asleep on a bed evidently borrowed from some boarding-house--since it is several feet too short for him_.--MAY _engaged in peeling potatoes.--Enter_ REASONING ANIMAL. REASONING ANIMAL. "My daughter! I see you are passionately in love with LIONEL. Therefore, as I know him to be a fine young fellow, you must never see him more." (_Enter_ COMIC YANKEE.) COMIC YANKEE. "Here's your new banjo, Miss MAY. Play us something comic and depressing." MAY. "Thank Heaven, I can get at the banjo at last" (_Plays and is encored a dozen times._) COMIC YANKEE. "Miss MAY, you must go and take a walk." (_She goes._) "LIONEL, you are well enough to leave this ranche. Get up and get."