and haven't a drop of spirits left to keep them
off.

SWAGGRINO.

(116)[_Without._] Rip Van Winkle! Rip Van Winkle.

RIP.

Rip Van Winkle! that's me to a certainty.

_Music._--[SWAGGRINO, _the grotesque dwarf, enters_],(117) _bending beneath
the weight of a large cask which he bears on his shoulder.--He pauses,
examines _RIP, _then invites him to assist him in placing the cask on the
ground, which _RIP _complies with._

RIP.

Hang me, if he hasn't brought my heart up into my mouth: what an
outlandish being, [a sea snake,](118) by dunder!

_Music._--[SWAGGRINO,](119) _pointing to the cask, [entreats_] RIP'S
_assistance in bearing it up the mountains._

RIP.

Want me to help you up mit it? Why not say so at first, my old codger?
What a queer old chap, to be sure; but I can't let him toil up the
mountain with such a heavy load as dat, no, no, and so, old [broad](120)
chops, I'll help you.

_Music_.--[DWARF](121) _assists in placing cask on_ RIP'S _shoulder. A loud
laugh is heard;_ RIP _is alarmed, but_ [DWARF] _signs him to proceed and
be of good courage--leads way up rocks. Another peal of laughter, and_ RIP
_hastily follows him._

*Footnotes*

109 Not in K.

110 "I vishes" in K. No attempt is being made to indicate small
differences ofdialect.

111 "der" inserted in K.

112 In K., stage direction, "[_Lies down._]".

113 "der debil" in K.; also "mein frau."

114 In K., the stage directions are: [_Lies down to sleep._

115 In K., the speech takes this form:
VOICE. [_Without._] Rip Van Winkle!

116 No name in K., only "VOICE."

117 In K., read. "_One of the_ SPECTRE CREW _enters._"

118 Not in K.

119 "_The_ IMP" in K.; also "asks."

120 "pale" in K.

121 "IMP" in K.

SCENE V.

_Dark.--The Sleepy Hollow, in the bosom of the mountains, occupying the
extreme extent of the stage--stunted trees, fragments of rock in various
parts.--Moon in the horizon; __ the entrance to this wild recess being by
an opening from the abyss in the rear of the glen._

_Music_.--GROTESQUE DUTCH FIGURES _with [enormous]_(_122_)_ masked heads
and lofty tapering hats, discovered playing_ [_at cards in various
places--others at Dutch pins--battledores and shuttlecocks--the majority
seated on a rock drinking and smoking._](123)

GAUDERKIN.

Since on earth this only day,
In fifty years we're given to stray,
We'll keep it as a holiday!
So bro