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DRAMATIS PERSONAE	A
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ST JOHN a Presidential Candidate	B
MCDONALD a Defeated Aspirant	C
MRS HAYES an Ex President	D
PITTS STEVENS a Water Nymph	E
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Scene A Small Lake in the Alleghany Mountains	F
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ST JOHN	G
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Hours I've immersed my muzzle in this tarn	G
And quaffing copious potations tried	H
To suck it dry but ever as I pumped	I
Its waters into my distended skin	G
The labor of my zeal extruded them	J
In perspiration from my pores and so	K
Rilling the marginal declivity	I
They fell again into their source Ah me	L
Could I but find within these ancient hills	M
Some long extinct volcano by the rains	N
Of countless ages in its crater brimmed	I
Like a full goblet I would lay me down	G
Prone on the outer slope and o'er its edge	O
Arching my neck I'd siphon out its store	P
And flood the valleys with my sweat for aye	Q
So should I be accounted as a god	I
Even as Father Nilus is What's that	I
Methought I heard some sawyer draw his file	R
With jarring stridulous cacophany	G
Across his notchy blade to set its teeth	S
And mine on edge Ha there it goes again	G
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Song within	G
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Cold water's the milk of the mountains	F
And Nature's our wet nurse O then	G
Glue thou thy blue lips to her fountains	F
Forever and ever amen	G
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ST JOHN	G
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Why surely there's congenial company	G
Aloof the spirit I suppose that guards	T
This sacred spot perchance some water nymph	E
Who laving in the crystal flood her limbs	U
Has taken cold and so with raucous voice	V
Afflicts the sensitive membrane of mine ear	W
The while she sings my sentiments	X
Enter Pitts Stevens	F
Hello	K
What fiend is this	Y
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PITTS STEVENS	F
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'Tis I be not afraid	I
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ST JOHN	G
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And who thou antiquated crone art thou	Z
I ne'er forget a face but names I can't	I
So well remember I have seen thee oft	I
When in the middle season of the night	I
Curved with a cucumber or knotted hard	I
With an eclectic pie I've striven to keep	A2
My head and heels asunder thou has come	B2
With sociable familiarity	G
Into my dream but not alas to bless	C2
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PITTS STEVENS	F
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My name's Pitts Stevens age just seventeen years	D2
Talking teetotaler professional	E2
Beauty	G
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ST JOHN	G
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What dost them here	W
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PITTS STEVENS	F
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I'm come fair sir	F2
With paint and brush to blazon on these rocks	G2
The merits of my master's nostrum so	K
Paints rapidly	G
'McDonald's Vinegar Bitters '	-
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ST JOHN	G
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What are they	A
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PITTS STEVENS	F
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A woman suffering from widowhood	G
Took a full bottle and was cured A man	G
There was a murderer the doctors all	H2
Had given him up he'd but an hour to live	I2
He swallowed half a glassful He is dead	G
But not of Vinegar Bitters A wee babe	J2
Lay sick and cried for it The mother gave	K2
That innocent a spoonful and it smoothed	G
Its pathway to the tomb 'Tis warranted	G
To cause a boy to strike his father make	L2
A pig squeal start the hair upon a stone	G
Or play the fiddle for a country dance	M2
Enter McDonald reading a Sunday school book	N2
Good morrow sir I trust you're well	O2
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MCDONALD	G
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H'lo Pitts	P2
Observe good friends I have a volume here	W
Myself am author of a noble book	N2
To train the infant mind delightful task	Q2
It tells how one Samantha Brown age six	R2
A gutter bunking slave to rum was saved	G
By Vinegar Bitters went to church and now	Z
Has an account at the Pacific Bank	S2
I'll read the whole work to you	T2
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ST JOHN	G
Heaven forbid	G
I've elsewhere an engagement	G
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PITTS STEVENS	F
I am deaf	U2
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MCDONALD reading regardless	V2
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'Once on a time there lived'	G
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Enter Mrs Hayes	W2
Behold our queen	G
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ALL	H2
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Her eyes upon the ground	G
Before her feet she low'rs	W2
Walking in thought profound	G
As 'twere upon all fours	W2
Her visage is austere	X2
Her gait a high parade	G
At every step you hear	W
The sloshing lemonade	G
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MRS HAYES to herself	Y2
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Once sitting in the White House hard at work	Z2
Signing State papers Rutherford was there	A3
Knitting some hose a sudden glory fell	O2
Upon my paper I looked up and saw	W2
An angel holding in his hand a rod	G
Wherewith he struck me Smarting with the blow	K
I rose and cuffing Rutherford inquired	G
'Wherefore this chastisement ' The angel said	G
'Four years you have been President and still	B3
There's rum ' then flew to Heaven Contrite I swore	P
Such oath as lady Methodist might take	L2
My second term should medicine my first	G
The people would not have it that way so	K
I seek some candidate who'll take my soul	C3
My spirit of reform fresh from my breast	G
And give me his instead and thus equipped	G
With my imperious and fiery essence	W2
Drive the Drink Demon from the land and fill	B3
The people up with water till their teeth	S
Are all afloat	G
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St John discovers himself	Y2
What you	T2
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ST JOHN	G
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Aye Madam I'll	R
Swap souls with you and lead the cold sea green	G
Amphibians of Prohibition on	G
Pallid of nose and webbed of foot swim bladdered	G
Gifted with gills invincible	E2
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MRS HAYES	W2
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Enough	D3
Stand forth and consummate the interchange	E3
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While McDonald and Pitts Stevens modestly turn their	A3
backs the latter blushing a delicate shrimp pink St John and	G
Mrs Hayes effect an exchange of immortal parts When the	F3
transfer is complete McDonald turns and advances uncorking	L2
a bottle of Vinegar Bitters	W2
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MCDONALD chanting	L2
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Nectar compounded of simples	W2
Cocted in Stygian shades	W2
Acids of wrinkles and pimples	W2
From faces of ancient maids	W2
Acrid precipitates sunken	G
From tempers of scolding wives	W2
Whose husbands uncommonly drunken	G
Are commonly found in dives	W2
With this I baptize and appoint thee	G
to St John	G
To marshal the vinophobe ranks	W2
In the name of Dambosh I anoint thee	G
pours the liquid down St John's back	L2
As King of aquatical cranks	W2
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The liquid blisters the royal back and His Majesty starts	W2
on a dead run energetically exclaiming Exit St John	G
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MRS HAYES	W2
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My soul My soul I'll never get it back	L2
Unless I follow nimbly on his track	L2
Exit Mrs Hayes	W2
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PITTS STEVENS	W2
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O my he's such a beautiful young man	G
I'll follow too and catch him if I can	G
Exit Pitts Stevens	W2
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MCDONALD	G
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He scarce is visible his dust so great	G
Methinks for so obscure a candidate	G
He runs quite well But as for Prohibition	G
I mean myself to hold the first position	G
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Produces a pocket flask topes a cruel quantity of double distilled	G
thunder and lightning out of it smiles so grimly as to	G
darken all the stage and sings	W2
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Though fortunes vary let all be merry	G
And then if e'er a disaster befall	H2
At Styx's ferry is Charon's wherry	G
In easy call	H2
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Upon a ripple of golden tipple	E2
That tipsy ship'll convey you best	G
To king and cripple the bottle's the nipple	E2
Of Nature's breast	G