[CORA, spoken]
Where are you running? You, there, with the blue pants with pleats in the front. Where are you running? I am your Mayoress, I demand to know!

[COOLEY, spoken]
Ho there, uh, ho there!

[CORA, spoken]
Ho there? Don't ask, you cowards, stop them! Magruder, where are you running?

[MAGRUDER, spoken]
The town beyond the valley, they've got a miracle! This statue in the middle of the square, suddenly, it's got a warm heart!

[CORA, spoken]
Oh, that can happen to anyone. Magruder, come back! Cooley, where are you sneaking off to?

[COOLEY, spoken]
It could be a miracle!

[CORA, spoken]
It could not! Schub, Comptroller Schub! You're not running with the others

[SCHUB, spoken]
Running is for the herd. Come now, Cora, you can't win 'em all! Let's dine together this evening, my house, at eight. Or your house, it makes me no difference. Your house, at whenever

[CORA, spoken]
My poor town, they'll be poor again, and they'll hate me again
[SCHUB, spoken]
True

[CORA, spoken]
That's the trouble with history, Schub. You come down from the mount, the leader, the savior. The peasants cheer and parade, it's all glamorous and exciting, and then you have to get down to the dreary business of getting money in the till. Oh, Schub, if only we could think of a new miracle

[SCHUB, spoken]
What we need, Cora, is to be in step

[CORA, spoken]
You think it might be a miracle, over there?

[SCHUB, spoken]
No harm in looking! And if it isn't, we can always expose it

[CORA, spoken]
Oh, Schub, you are brilliant! If I'm not careful, I'll marry you

[COOKIES]
I'm like the bluebird
I should worry, I should care
I should be a millionaire
I'm like the bluebird

I'm like the bluebird
I should worry, I should kick
I should be a heretic
I'm like the bluebird