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Enter Eotjkin.s and DfYTO, right, and TilvctukEj Mo per and Ponder.
one after the other, from the opposite side.

Bodkins.— W ell met, gentlemen, well m et! W c ave all of one
way of thinking, I presume, in regard to the business of to-night?
D itto.— I hope, gentlemen, that Kettleville will do her duty and
her whole duty on this occasion.
T incture.-— W e must put a stop to this woman's rights movement,
or it will put a stop to us. Action, heroic action, as we doctors say,
is the only remedy. Now's the time*
MorER.— IIovv will you do ic? T hat’s the question. Jt can’t bo
done.
B odkins.— Brother Mopcr, you ate always looking on the d^/k side
of things. Wrhv can't it be done?
M op e — Because the women carry too many guns for us.
B odkix-S.— Guns? Gnus ? Does this little Miss Haverway carry
a gun ?
M oper.— 'She doesn't carry anything else. That little m orocco
roll, or cylinder, in which she pretends to carry her lecture, is an air-
ju n — a deadly weapon,
Bo d k im .— Possible? But that's a matter for the police to look
into. H a, ha I W e are not to be intimidated, gentleman— eh P W e
arc true Americans. No cowards among us— eh? Tile blood of
seventy-si* does not— does not—-
D itto.—-Stagnate in our veins.
B odkins,— T hank you, sir. D ocs not stagnate in our veins,
Surely not in wine— not in mine !
P o w d e r.— M ay I he aflowed to ask a question
Ai.r~— Certainly.
PoNi.uai.— W hat are we here for?
B odkins.— W e are here, Mr, Ponder, to protest against allowing
the town hall to be used to-night by one Miss Haver way for her lec­
ture on woman’s rights, I appeal to every young man in the land,
ought it not to make our blood— our blood—