_Act 1. Curtain rises upon a score of Unintelligible Demons_, who sing
this impressive chorus:

"Oh! um um um um
For um um um um
And um um um um
To um um um um."

_Exeunt Demons. Enter_ RUDOLPH THE TEMPTER. _He remarks to the
surrounding scenery_--"ULLERIC'S soul must be mine, or else the dark
abodes of torment await me. I will tempt him. Great Master, appear."

_The Great Master--a major-general of fiends--appears, and, approving
of_ RUDOLPH'S _virtuous resolve, they descend to--well, they descend
below the Erie Building, to drink to his success. Scene changes to_
ULRIC'S _home. Enter_ ULRIC _and family, including Aged Mother, Virtuous
Heroine, Hated Rival, and Demoniac Servant._

ULRIC. "Motherr, this slife is intollerrabble; I will do any thing to
escape frrrom it."

_Enter_ RUDOLPH _and Unintelligible Demons (disguised.) They sing as
before._

"Oh! um um um um," etc.

ULRIC. "The song says terruly. I will go with you, though you were the
fiend himself."