reetly--

Chorus: In short this happy country has been Anglicized com-
pletely!
It really is surprising, etc.

King: Our peerage we've remodelled on an intellectual basis,
Which certainly is rough on our hereditary races--

Chorus: We are going to remodel it in England.

King: The Brewers and the Cotton Lords no longer seek
admission,
And literary merit meets with proper recognition--

Chorus: As literary merit does in England!

King: Who knows but we may count among our intellectual
chickens
Like you, an Earl of Thackery and p'r'aps a Duke of
Dickens--
Lord Fildes and Viscount Millais (when they come) we'll
welcome sweetly--

Chorus: In short, this happy country has been Anglicized
completely!
It really is surprising, etc.

(At the end all rise and replace their chairs.)

King: Now, then for our first Drawing-Room. Where are the
Prin-
cesses? What an extraordinary thing it is that since
Euro-
pean looking-glasses have been supplied to the Royal bed-
rooms my daughters are invariably late!

Lord D.: Sir, their Royal Highnesses await your pleasure in the
Ante-room.

King: Oh. Then request them to do us the favor to enter at
once.

(Enter all the Royal Household, including (besides the Lord
Chamber-
lain) the Vice-Chamberlain, the Master of the Horse, the
Master
of the Buckhounds, the Lord High Treasurer, the Lord Steward,
the
Comptroller of the Household, the Lord-in-Waiting, the Field
Officer in Brigade Waiting, the Gold and Silver Stick, and the
Gentlemen Ushers. Then enter the three Princesses (their
trains
carried by Pages of Honor), Lady Sophy, and the
Ladies-in-Waiting.)

King: My daughters, we are about to attempt a very solemn
ceremo-
nial, so no giggling, if you please. Now, my Lord
Chamber-
lain, we are ready.

Lord D.: Then, ladies and gentlemen, places, if you please. His
Maj-
esty will take his place in front of the throne, and will
be
so obliging as to embrace all the debutantes. (LADY
SOPHY
much shocked.)

King: What--must I really?

Lord D.: Absolutely