Anne And I don’t want to know. I’ve had enough of looking into past lives; don’t tell me anything you wish to forget.
Hard Oh, Anne—my dear cousin; if I could forget—if silence could be oblivion. [Exeunt Hardress and Anne, L.
SCENE V.—Exterior of Myles’ Hut. [1st grooves.]
Enter Myles, R., singing “Brian O’Linn.”
“Brian O’Linn had no breeches to wear,
So he bought him a sheepskin to make him a pair;
The skinny side out, the woolly side in,
‘They are cool and convanient,’ said Brian O’Linn.”
[Locks door of cabin.] Now I’ll go down to my whisky-still. It is under my feet this minute, bein’ in a hole in the rocks they call O’Donoghue’s stables, a sort of water cave; the people around here think that the cave is haunted with bad spirits, and they say that of a dark stormy night strange unearthly noises is heard comin’ out of it—it is me singing, “The night before Larry was stretched.” Now I’ll go down to that cave, and wid a sod of live turf under a kettle of worty, I’ll invoke them sperrits—and what’s more, they’ll come.
[Exit Myles, singing, R. Music till Myles begins to speak next scene.