HANSEL 'Come home, come home, come home!' But I didn't go. I don't know where. . . Oh, what a funny dream!
ILSE
Mine was a bad dream!—Mine was a lovely lady
And she was by the river, staring in.
PIPER
You were the little gold-fish, none could catch.
Oh, what a funny dream! . . .
[Apart, anxiously]
No Michael yet.
[Aloud]
Come, bread and broth! Here—not all, three at a time;
'T is simpler. Here, you kittens. Eat awhile;
Then—
[RUDI wakes.]
RUDI
Oh! I had a dream,—an awful dream!
[The PIPER takes JAN on his knee and feeds him, after ladling out a big bowl of broth from the kettle for the Children, and giving them bread.
PIPER
Oh! oh! I had a dream!
CHILDREN
Oh, tell it to us!
PIPER
I dreamed. . . a Stork. . . had nested in my hat.
CHILDREN
Oh!