O Johnny, I hardly knew you!

"Where are the legs with which you run,

When you went to carry a gun.

Indeed your dancing days are done,

O Johnny, I hardly knew you!"

(Timothy and Mother come in from opposite
doors. Cats disappear—music still heard
faintly.)

Mother: (Looking at little bellows in her hand.)
Do you know That what it is, Timothy?

Timothy: Is it now a hand-bellows? It's long
since I seen the like of that.

Mother: It is, but what bellows?

Timothy: Not a bellows? I'd nearly say it to be one.