This page needs to be proofread.
-! MR. COTTON
- Oh, glory's neither here nor there;
- but think of the enormous profits
- we'd reap if Greece should free herself.
MONSIEUR BALLON
- I saw myself a conqueror,
- by lovely Grecian maids encircled.
TRUMPETERSTRALE
- Grasped in my Swedish hands, I saw
- the great, heroic spur-strap-buckles!
VON EBERKOPF
- I my gigantic Fatherland's
- culture saw spread o'er earth and sea-!
MR. COTTON
- The worst's the loss in solid cash.
- God dam! I scarce can keep from weeping!
- I saw me owner of Olympus.
- If to its fame the mountain answers,
- there must be veins of copper in it,
- that could be opened up again.
- And furthermore, that stream Castalia,
- which people talk so much about,
- with fall on fall, at lowest reckoning,
- must mean a thousand horse-power good-!
TRUMPETERSTRALE
- Still I will go! My Swedish sword
- is worth far more than Yankee gold!
MR. COTTON
- Perhaps; but, jammed into t
