Geo I'm afraid I'm very troublesome.
Dun Yes, you're very troublesome, you are. No, I mean you're
a lovely sufferer, that's the idea. [They go up to cottage door.]
Enter Asa, running against Dundreary.
Dun There's that damned rhinoceros again. [Exit into cottage,
with Georgina.]
Asa There goes that benighted aristocrat and that little toad
of a sick gal. [Looks off.] There he's a settling her in a chair
and covering her all over with shawls. Ah! it's a caution,
how these women do fix our flint for us. Here he comes.
[Takes out bottle.] How are you, hair dye. [Goes behind dairy.]
Enter Dundreary.
Dun That lovely Georgina puts me in mind of that beautiful piece of poetry.
Let me see how it goes. The rose is red, the violet's blue.
[Asa tips his hat over his eyes.]
Dun [Repeats.]
Asa [Repeats business.]
Dun [Comes down, takes off hat, looking in it.] There must be
something alive in that hat. [Goes up, and commences again.]
The rose is red, the violet's blue, sugar is sweet, and so is somebody,
and so is somebody else.
Asa puts yoke on Dundreary's shoulders gently.
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