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Snickerty Nick

Hello, Dicky Dicky Doubt, with your shirt-tail out!

[They all laugh.]

[Nicky rubs his eyes and falls asleep again.]

RAGGED SAILOR

There’s no moving him. He’s aground, he is.

[Sailor fashion he dances a few steps.]

SPRING

Sweet William, you try.

[Sweet William takes the paints that the Dwarf has used for the sign and paints a dot of red on his forehead, his cheeks and then the end of his nose until he is a droll sight.]

SWEET WILLIAM

See what a funny face he has. He won’t know himself when he wakes up.

[Shaking him]

Wake up! Wake up! I can’t wake him.

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