a rough
(Laughs.) Ay! Hands up to De Wet.
the citizen
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
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.
the croppy boy
Horhot ho hray ho rhother’s hest
rumbold
I’m near it myself. (He undoes the noose.) Rope which hanged the awful