(to Sergeant) And so, my honest fellow, you don't forget the girls you have left behind you?

No, zur. There be Mary Hooper and Mary Cooper and Jane Tucker and Emily Snugg and Susan Wickens and Hepzibah Lugg and pretty Polly Potter - (sighs)

And yet - and yet - you are all going to Carrig-Cleena!

Ess. There be Thomas Perry and Thomas Merry and Jan Hadley and Timothy Mudd and Harry Budgen and Oliver Rudd and myself and -

Poor fellows!

Eh?

Suppose - merely suppose - that when you reach the caves of Carrig-Cleena, which as you know, are haunted by fairies - (repeating with emphasis) which, as you know, are haunted by fairies -

Aw! I an't ayerd nort about that!

Haven't you? You will before long. What's this?

Oh, my mistress, Lady Rosie,
Daughter of the Lord Lieutenant,
Has been greatly agitated
By a very strange encounter!

What's the matter, noble lady?
Calm yourself, and try to tell us.

It is past my comprehension!
On the road from Carrig-Cleena
Suddenly a man addressed me -
Quite a harmless aged person,
Who, in answer to my question,
Told me he was then escaping
From the caves of Carrig-Cleena,
From the Fairy Cleena's clutches!
What he meant I cannot tell you -
This is he who now approaches!

(sung) This is he who now approaches
From the caves of Carrig-Cleena,
From the Fairy Cleena's clutches!

Speak, aged man,
And say what troubles ail you!
As quickly as you can -
Before your senses fail you!

Speak!