The hero comes “galumphing back” to this figure, played by the piano:
while the clarinet simultaneously sounds again the original heroic theme.
In the third movement, Looking Glass Insects, the composer again shows us his ability in orchestration, this time with more delicate touches. The several themes describe the bee-elephant, the rocking-horse-fly, the snap-dragon-fly, and the bread-and-butter-fly, but as the composer himself remarks, “there is no use trying to decide which insect any one of them stands for.”
The fourth movement tells of The White Knight, the “toy Don Quixote, mild, chivalrous, ridiculous, and rather touching,” who fell off in front when the horse stopped, and backwards when it went on again.
After a brief, galloping introduction, the first theme starts off bravely:
but falls out of the saddle before very long:
