MERMAN AND MERMAID.
(Grand Operatic Phantasmagoria)
THE ARGUMENT.
Owondlo meets Major Booth in a stateroom, who asks what he seeks here, and Owondlo tells him, a weapon to protect himself from dangerous enemies of the sea. Then Major Booth loans him his sword, and Owondlo thanks him and bids him farewell.
Scene 2.
Owondlo enters near the Magic Table Rock in the Garden of the Gods, and sees petrified sea currants, fossils, toadstools, etc. He declares that some foolish ghost had tried to feed the Gods in the Garden on petrified food. He picks up and keeps the diamond ring, just then a rumbling noise startles the sea with vibrations again.
Then suddenly appears a large gold fish which comes closer and closer, Owondlo takes his sword and slays the fish, whereupon Fleehion, the Mermaid, issues out just where he severed the fish. Owondlo is dazed and soon holds his bride-to-be in his arms. King Neptune blesses both as curtain falls.
End of Act I.
