I think I
had better faint." _(Faints.) [Enter O'Malley and his rescued enemies.]_
O'MALLEY.--"Sit down, while I go for the whiskey." _[He goes.]_
O'HARA.--"What do I see? My daughter! Take her up-stairs before O'MALLEY
returns." _(They take her up.) [Re-enter O'Malley.]_
O'MALLEY.--"Gentlemen, here is the whiskey. It is Gen. GRANT'S favorite
brand, and you'll find it all right." _[To his servant]_ "CONNER, these
men mean to arrest me. Go and set fire to the castle." _[Connor goes,
and O'Malley, locking the door, throws the key out of the window.]_
EVERYBODY.--"What do you mean by throwing away the key? Do you mean to
surround us, and, making us prisoners, drink up the whiskey yourself?"
O'MALLEY,--"'Tis a custom of our house, intended originally to give
employment to meritorious locksmiths on the eve of election. Listen
while I tell you how one of my ancestors played a nice little trick on
some officers who had come to arrest him for shooting his landlord. He
locked them up as I have locked you up. He then ordered his servant to
set the castle on fire as I have just done, and was baked with them as
we are about to be baked."
DUTCH GENERAL.--"Donner und blitzen!"
EVERYBODY ELSE.--"Tare an ounds!"
TRAGIC HEROINE, _[in the loft above]_.--"S c r r r e e e c h."
O'MALLEY.
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