"The inspiration came to me whilst I was dressing," announced Lucas; "it will be the thing in the next music-hall revue . All London will go mad over it. It's just a couplet; of course there will be other words, but they won't matter. Listen:
Cousin Teresa takes out Caesar, Fido, Jock, and the big borzoi.
A lifting, catchy sort of refrain, you see, and big-drum business on the two syllables of bor-zoi. It's immense. And I've thought out all the business of it; the singer will sing the first verse alone, then during the second verse Cousin Teresa will walk through, followed by four wooden dogs on wheels; Caesar will be an Irish terrier, Fido a black poodle, Jock a fox-terrier, and the borzoi, of course, will be a borzoi. During the third verse Cousin Teresa will come on alone, and the dog
