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PETER PAN
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(The tenement that is HOOK heaves tumultuously and he is himself again.)
HOOK (now convinced that some fair spirit watches over him). Then here is to Johnny Plank—
Avast, belay, the English brig
We took and quickly sank,
And for a warning to the crew
We made them walk the plank!
We took and quickly sank,
And for a warning to the crew
We made them walk the plank!
(As he sings he capers detestably along an imaginary plank and his copy-cats do likewise, joining in the chorus.)
Yo ho, yo ho, the frisky cat,
You walks along it so,
Till it goes down and you goes down
To tooral looral lo!
You walks along it so,
Till it goes down and you goes down
To tooral looral lo!
(The brave children try to stem this monstrous torrent by breaking into the National Anthem.)
STARKEY (paling). I don’t like it, messmates!
HOOK. Stow that, Starkey. Do you boys want a touch of the cat before you walk the plank? (He is more pitiless than ever now that
