And everyone is fast asleep,

And honey-hunting moths go by,

And by the bread-batch crickets cry;

Then on they hurry, never waiting

To lawyer's backyard cellar grating

Where Jaggard's cat, with clever paw,

Unhooks a broke-brick's secret door;

Then down into the cellar black,

Across the wood slug's slimy track,

Into an old cask's quiet hollow,