H — E D^V — N, Alderman S — B, and other disting^^ished advocates of temperance are discovered in hunting costume, reclining as though exhausted upon couches. As curtain rises they burnt into so7ig. Opening When wearied with the chase. We lovers of humanity Seek this our trysting place, With unimpaired urbanity ; And merrily we sing, With pardonable vanity. In every noble thing We're richer than humanitv. Chorus. For though poor fallen man We gaze upon with tearfulness. Our own careers we scan With unabated cheerfulness. We have escaped the ban Which presses on mortality, And so, of course, we can Dispense with all formality. As merrily we sing, &c. Alderman T — t— M {coming forward) : Yes, my friends, humanity is indeed a bad, bad egg, but the outlook is not altogether gloomy. Were thei-e no deserts there would be no oases. Had night no darkness the stars would be invisible. If human nature were not depraved where should we be ? All : True, true ; we should then be nothing very particular.