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THE EMPEROR.
[_Reading another paper._]
Granted.
A WOMAN.
Father Franz--
THE EMPEROR.
What, you? All well At home?
THE WOMAN.
Oh, so-so.
THE EMPEROR.
Well, old woman? Well?
THE OLD WOMAN.
Why, don't you see, the wind has killed my chickens.
THE EMPEROR.
Granted.--A vocalist?
THE VOCALIST.
I yodle.
THE EMPEROR.
Come And yodle to the Court at Baden.
THE CHAMBERLAIN.
Name?
THE VOCALIST.
Schnauser.
THE EMPEROR.
A Highlander?
THE HIGHLANDER.
Out yonder My home is, on the mountains, in the skies.
I want to be a cabman in Vienna.
THE EMPEROR.
Well, so you shall.
[_Taking another paper._]
A wealthy husbandman Begs Franz to give him back his daughter's love Which a Bohemian gla.s.s-blower has stolen.
[_Handing back the paper._]
You'll wed your child to her Bohemian lover.
THE HUSBANDMAN.
But--
THE EMPEROR.
I'll endow him.
THE CHAMBERLAIN.
Name?
THE HUSBANDMAN.
Johannes Schmoll.
I kiss your hands.
THE EMPEROR.
[_Taking another paper._]
"A shepherd of the Tyrol, A friendless orphan, robbed of all his land, Driven from his homestead by his father's foes, Yearns for his native woods and skies"--how touching!-- "And his paternal meadow." 'Tis restored.
THE CHAMBERLAIN.
What is the shepherd's name, who asks for help?
THE SHEPHERD.
The Duke of Reichstadt! And the meadow's France!
THE EMPEROR.
