SCENE II.—The Gap of Dunloe. [1st grooves.] Hour before sunrise.

Enter Corrigan, R. 1 E.

Corrig From the rock above I saw the boat leave Torc Cregan. It is now crossing the lake to the cottage. Who is this girl? What is this mysterious misthress of young Cregan?—that I’ll find out.

[Myles sings outside, L.

“Oh! Charley Mount is a pretty place,

In the month of July——”

Corrig Who’s that?—’Tis that poaching scoundrel—that horse stealer, Myles na Coppaleen. Here he comes with a keg of illicit whisky, as bould as Nebuckadezzar.

Enter Myles, singing, with keg on his shoulder, L.

Is that you, Myles?