Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-06-12

Which you would not have found
Had he been bound
! Apprentice to pilot.
| Frederick then wants to leave, and
| breaks the news that he does so with a
broken heart, because, individually, he
| loves each and every one of his buccaneer
| friends but, collectively, he abhors them
with absolute detestation He thinks
| it his sacred duty to follow the dictates of
his conscience and eXterminate the pirates
as soon as he is set free but he promises
to execute his threats OF execution in the
least agonizing way. Ruth is ceded to
Frederick, and they secede after a long
debate between Frederick and Richard, the
pirate chief Richard then sings his great
air, 'fFor | am a Pirate King" which is
very appropriate, the wild character of the
man being well described in an accompani-
| ment full of harmony, which Is brought out
by the reed instruments. In the first verse
OF this he remarks en- posSant.
Away to the cheating world go you,
Where pirates al are well to do;
But / will he true 10 the song sing
And will liys and die pirate king.
The second runs thus:
When sally forth to meet my prey.
help myself in regal way,
| sink q few SHIPS It's true,
Than we'll bred monarch ought to do
But many king on a fiTst-cass throne
If he wants to call bis crown his own,
Must somehow manage to get through
More dirty work than ever do,
Though I'm pirate king
it is, 1t is q glorious thing
To be pirate king.
II is, it is glorious thing
To be pirate king.
The pirates then leave Ruth and Fred
erick to their fate. Ruth at once begins
to 60 work " Frederick, and convinces him
that she is beautiful, in which hard task
she succeeds mparatively soon, because
Frederick had never seen any other woman.
Yet he says a young man OF q should look
for wife Zone of II, . to which she re-
plies that he would find her 90 one of
thousand. he finally accepts in good
spirits and consents to union with her
| despite of the difference in their years,
when suddenly the voices of girls are heard
in the distance. Frederick, who is not
accustomed to snch fresh sounds as come
from the threats of such customers, at first
fears the approach of the ''custom house,
delicate insinuation of the qui vive on
which pirates must constantly be. Scout
ing about the rocks he discover the girls,
and at once shows that he is not such
fool as he seems, but has sense enough
to see that these ladies are at once
young and beautiful, and at once per-
ceives that Ruth has tried to deceive
him as to their union. His wrath at her
finds Just expression IN the outbursts OF
indignation, False one, thou has decei, ed
INC !" Ruth, however, derives no advan-
tage from her explanation, and she is
driven from him. Then Frederick finds
himself alone, and he bewails his piratcal
appearance, and consoles himself with an /
aria which ends with the pathetic state
ment that he must conceal himself, or try
to find some decent clothing" Happily
he does conceal himself, thereby making
room for the appearance of charming |,
group OF girls, VINO wonder where their
father, the Major General Stanley, is; they !
console themselves for his absence by con- /
GLIDING to take off their shoes and wade !,
about on the beach. Each of the sisters |!
has removed her left shoe when Frederick |
makes his appearance and tells them that |
they are observed by him. The first sister !
boldly asks him who he is, and when he |
says pirate, they all hop back on one foot, |
In girlish fright and terror. This is ex-
cessively comical, and you can well credit |
the story of how Mr.. Sullivan must have |
worked drilling the twenty-five, illustrat- .
ing the act of hopping and the def knack |
of balancing on one foot. Frederick of |
course is at once overpowered by his love |
for all of them, and conjures them to ac-
cept him as their husband
Oh is there not one maiden here
Who does not feel the moral beauty
OF making worldly interest
Subordinate to sense of dutY9
Who would not give up willingly
All matrimonial ambition
To rescue such one as
From his unfortunate condition
The young ladies, however, are not pre-
pared to make such sacrifice.
Alas there's not one maiden here
Who seems to feel the moral beauty
OF making worldly interest
Subordinate to sense of duty
The youngest daughter, Mabel, at length
has the courage and love to scorn her SIS
tiers, gives him her hand, expressing her
sentiments in "valse.
Poor wandering one,
If such poor love as mine
The sisters, being advised by Edith to
give Mabel a chance :" to make hay while
the sun doth shine, retire to talk about
the weather in an original and highly glee-
full chorus, touching on question of doubt
whether they would have "a hot July"
This is one of the surprising things in the
opera and one of the funniest. The notes
of the weather chorus are taken in i-l6