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manager met me on the street. ‘Come to my room before you go to bed,’ he said. ‘Got to fix up that second act. It’s rotten. . . . So I did some more rewriting, which I think was never even tried out. I never heard of it, at any rate.

“After performances in Waukegan, Illinois, and Janesville, Wisconsin, ‘Lo’ opened in Milwaukee for a week’s engagement. It seemed to please; the newspapers ‘treated us lovely,’ as the management had it.

“But at the age of fourteen weeks it breathed its last, on December 5th, in St. Joseph, Missouri. Its parents, bearing up nobly, learned the sad news through a stray newspaper paragraph. . . .

“That is the plain, unjapalacked story. I’m not recriminating. Taking one consideration with another, however, the librettist’s lot is not a snappy one.”

What Mr. Adams calls “Lo, the Poor Musical Comedy,” is dead and gone, and no man knoweth the place of its sepulture. But most of the lyrics have survived.

Mr. Adams tells us that his collaboration with O. Henry was unusually thoroughgoing—hardly an independent line was written. But “Snap Shots” was all O. Henry’s.