Transcriber's Note: Two musical errors, both in the last bar, have been corrected in the MIDI file: the second G in the treble staff should be natural; and the second B in the bass staff should be a C. In the lyrics, the word "So" in bar 6 should probably be "To."
(All are sound asleep. Stage is dark.)
Klinker (talking in his sleep). Noddin', nid, nid noddin'.
Schwillie (talking in his sleep). Dropping off to sleep, ain't we, Klinker?
Soft, mysterious music. Anita dances in from R. She dances around the stage, keeping time to the music and bending over the little sleepers.
Anita. Asleep! Every last one of them is verra sound asleep. Meeny and Biddy Mary, and Sergius and Tomasso and the leetla Dutch twins and all! (Goes to curtain at rear.) Jack Frost! Jolly Jack Frost! Come-a quick, come-a quick! They're all asleep.
Jack Frost (sticks his head out of the curtains). Hello, what is it?