e world at large
sausage. But no sausage is available. At this point a stray dog wanders
upon the stage. With a cry of delight the famished Teuton seizes the
unfortunate cur and joyously announcing that now sausage he will have,
forthwith disappears. Immediately from the wings arise agonised canine
howlings with which mingles the crashing of machinery. Gradually the
howlings die into choking silence while the crash of the machinery
proceeds for a few moments longer. Thereupon reappears the Teuton,
ecstatic and triumphant, bearing with him a huge sausage, which he
proceeds to devour with mingled lamentations over his departed "hund"
and raptures over its metamorphosed condition. In the midst of this
mingled lamentation and rapture is heard in the distance upon a mouth
organ band the sound of the German national air. The Teuton is startled,
drops his sausage upon the stage and exclaiming "Der Kronprinz," hastily
beats a retreat.

At the mention of this august name Switzer disappears from the rear
of the audience and makes his way to the back of the stage. In the
meantime, to the accompaniment of organs and drums, appears upon the
stage no less a personage than "der Kronprinz," to the reproduction of
whose features Sam's peculiar facial appearance admirably lends itself.
From this point the action proceeds with increased rapidity. No sooner
had "der Kronprinz," who is also in a famished condition, appeared upon
the stage than his eyes light upon the sausage. With a cry of delight
he seizes it and proceeds ravenously to devour it. But at the first
mouthful renewed howlings arise. "Der Kronprinz," in a state of intense
excitement, drops his sausage and begins a wild search in the corners
of the stage and in the wings for the source of the uproar. The sausage
thus abandoned, aided by an invisible cord, wabbles off the stage
before the eyes of the wondering and delighted audience. Thereafter "der
Kronprinz" reappears with his "hund" under his arm and begins an active
and distracted search for his precious sausage. Disappointed in his
search for the sausage and rendered desperate by his famished condition,
he seizes the wretched cur and begins gnawing at the tail and retires
from the scene, accompanied by the howls of the unhappy canine and the
applauding shouts of the audience.

Meantime while Sam is engaged in executing a lightning change from the
role of "der Kronprinz" to that of the original obese Teuton, Switzer
beside