The Queen has gone to bed
In the middle of the day;
But what about her bedfellow?
No one dares to say.
She cannot sleep at night:
She does not care to try;
The darkness makes her restless,
And nobody knows why.
III ([p. 48])
O, merry, merry will my heart be
When I can sit me down and rest:
If you would live to make old bones
Keep your knees off the kitchen-stones,
And go like a lady, warmly drest.
APPENDIX B
"THE CRIER BY NIGHT" was first performed by Mr. Stuart Walker's Portmanteau Theatre Company in Wyoming, U.S.A., in September 1916, and in New York at the Princess Theatre on 18 December 1916, with the following cast:
| Hialti | Mr. McKay Morris. |
| Thorgerd | Miss Judith Lowry. |
| Blanid | Miss Florence Buckton. |
| An Old, Strange Man | Mr. Edgar Stehli. |
Play produced by Mr. Stuart Walker and mounted by Mr. W. J. Zimmerer.