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ENTHUSIASM: A COMEDY.


MANHAUNSLET.

Do not know.

COLONEL FRANKLAND.

What papers, clothes, or goods did he leave behind him?

MANHAUNSLET.

All turned to cinder.

COLONEL FRANKLAND.

What clothes had the child upon him, when you caught him in your gaberdine?

MANHAUNSLET.

One littel shirt.

LAURIE.

Had it any letters marked upon it?

MANHAUNSLET.

No.

LAURIE.

Where is that shirt now?

MANHAUNSLET.

It lie wid many oder rags to manure de corn-fields of Bohemia.

COLONEL FRANKLAND.

And this is all you have to tell us of the boy?

MANHAUNSLET.

Not all.