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a rough

(Laughs.) Ay! Hands up to De Wet.

the citizen

(With a huge emerald muffler and shillelagh, calls.)

May the God above
Send down a dove
With teeth as sharp as razors
To slit the throat
Of the English dogs
That hanged our Irish leaders.

the croppy boy

(The rope noose round his neck, gripes in his issuing bowels with both hands.)

I bear no hate to a living thing,
But I love my country beyond the king.

rumbold, demon barber

(Accompanied by two blackmasked assistants, advances with a gladstone bag which he opens.) Ladies and gents, cleaver purchased by Mrs Pearcy to slay Mogg. Knife with which Voisin dismembered the wife of a compatriot and hid remains in a sheet in the cellar, the unfortunate female’s throat being cut from ear to ear. Phial containing arsenic retrieved from the body of Miss Barron which sent Seddon to the gallows.

(He jerks the rope, the assistants leap at the victim’s legs and drag him downward, grunting: the croppy boy’s tongue protrudes violently.)

the croppy boy

Horhot ho hray ho rhother’s hest

(He gives up the ghost. A violent erection of the hanged sends gouts of sperm spouting through his death clothes on to the cobblestones. Mrs Bellingham, Mrs Yelverton Barry and the Honourable Mrs Mervy Talboys rush forward with their handkerchiefs to sop it up.)

rumbold

I’m near it myself. (He undoes the noose.) Rope which hanged the awful