The motif appears in the first act and is elaborated into an octette in the third act when Gianetto's plot is perfected.
An octette of Republican ladies, wearing coonskin caps, trooped around town chanting a six-stanza ode to Sam Hopkins, written to the tune of Davy Crockett.
An octette of Negro mess-men and other talent, with a band of pots pans, an accordion and a cornet, put on a pathetic and courageous show"The Franklin Frolics.