Show 1 4 t Z dramatis diamatis Dra matis personae A city bachelor dan cupid jamesf aames the butter butler scene the living room bachelors bachelor s apartments time net years L be e HE bachelor how bright the fire T THE how cheery the crackling logs outside the dying year battles with the raging floam what has the old year brought to e that I 1 should mourn its passing asseg loves in plenty but were they loves orr of 1 were they passing fantasies bright spots of blue peeping through the stormy sky eky many a sorry trick dan cupid has played plarea me during the past twelve months could I 1 but have him here id review hun hh for ims his ben benefit erit ah the bell bel rings I 1 what friend or foe has braved the elements and come to dourb disturb my reveries of a new year s eve enter butler the bachelor A wee small gentleman to see me james you say but just a sweet faced child his card dan cupid yes I 1 know him and you may show him up but james you re not a adge of character he s not a child he s old as time and as full of devilish pranks as that neighbor s brat of whom you so complain james departs and returns ushering in dan cupid dan cupid ha ha dear sir not love s night business is 13 dull and so 10 1 I come to beg a chat with you and may Vr perchance chance revile you for the bs of the year that is passing the bachelor revile me you imp of satan 1 why but a moment before your ring that I 1 wished for you that I 1 might review for your benefit the tunes you ve played me false now sit you down and lees let s turn back the pages of the passing year and see the record it surely will show you up in your true colors gets a volume from the shelf we 11 start with january and with eleanor dan you rogue you v w bounded me for fair with her I 1 should not have cared had time and eternity been made up of J januarys Janu arys could I 1 but have had eleanor to sit beside me before the crackling fire throughout them all I 1 pleaded well my case but she would have none of it and then I 1 learned that you had placed me false through 11 rough february march and april I 1 nursed the wound caused by your treacherous dart and it was not until the hodis flo cis 0 of may began to bloom that it would heat heal but three shorts months and yet they seemed like years like centuries to me dan cupid good sir the fault was yours not mine across that page can you not read the promises you made the budding year how did you keep them not at all had you but been the angel you started out to be fair eleanor would have had no grounds for the curt refusal she meted out to you the bachelor Bac belor ah well dan I 1 was but human that is to err she married yes es and I 1 suppose believed she had captured the one real matrimonial prize but yesterday good to read the courts had cast asunder the bonds that bound and set her free to wound another heart dan cupid but you shall credit me with other opportunities that I 1 made for tor you opportunities more in keeping with your deserts the bachelor yes dan there was jessica of the yachting party the wound she left was not long in healing but was painful at first then later there was isabel how I 1 adored her your aim was sure and the bow was strong that send that shaft into my heart never can I 1 forget the tender words with which I 1 wooed her at the seashore nor the pulsations of my heart when she answered yes but dan you rascal you know her but once since those summer days have aseen I 1 seen her she served me coffee and rolls in a quick lunch room in november I 1 did not ask her where I 1 might redeem the ring yes dan there were others but why review them and I 1 H forgive you you imp I 1 U lay not up against you a single pang or dollar they have cost mer me on one condition that you shall not for this next year point your darts in my direction do you agree then we 11 ll burn the book and think no more of it casts it into the fire and now then dan the year is dying A toast to it and its fond memories to our escapades and my escapades to the fair girls who caud caused ed the heart throbs of 0 a season to the broken promises that saved me troubles to the old year and another dan to the year just horning borning to the anticipations which it brings the bells are ringing the old year is dead the new year lives and now good night but please remember that you have promised not to aim your darts in my dir direction echon exit dan cupid and curtain wright A ra r |